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As hospitals quicken their pace to replace physicians with paraprofessionals, physicians must brand their role in healthcare or suffer the consequences. Listen to Physicians Must Brand Their Role in Healthcare.
Hospitals and the government have decided that physicians must collaborate financially in order to deliver quality healthcare. Of course, that's a lie. Listen to Two Wolves And A Lamb.
RFPs for physician services come in several varieties - some real, some scams. Responding to any RFP takes considerable time and requires significant investment. So how much should your group charge to provide its proposal? Listen to How Much Should You Charge To Respond To That RFP?
Not only is fair market valuation resulting in a spiraling down of employed physician income, the same amount of money earned as an employee is worth less than that amount earned if you still owned the practice. Listen toThe Same Amount Of Money As An Employed Physician Is Worth Less.
Hospital administrators are involved in ACO formation, but physicians are being asked to fully commit. Listen to The Chicken, The Pig And The ACO.
Highly successful medical groups operate in concert with bureaucratic hospitals but avoid the taint of bureaucracy themselves. Listen to Avoiding The Bureaucratic Web.
Stop kidding yourself that the delivery of expert, even world-class, medical care is sufficient to guarantee your group’s future. Understand how to identify and incentivize high level customer service. Listen to How To Secure Customer Satisfaction. The dominant business and financial paradigm for many physicians, especially hospital-based specialists, is that they are a commodity, a valuable one, perhaps, but a commodity nonetheless. If you are ever to break out of the current paradigm, it will not be by benchmarking to the best practices of other groups headed downward in the same maelstrom. Listen to Creative Destruction.
The talking heads of healthcare are at it again: A new acronym to save healthcare has arrived, the ACO, an "accountable care organization." But to whom is an ACO accountable? Listen to Accountable Care Organizations: Accountable To Whom.
How will physicians fit within the bureaucratically envisioned healthcare system of the future? Listen to The Healthcare Con-Vergence.
Medical Groups and entrepreneurial physicians must learn to manage business risk as a part of their overall strategy. Listen to Managing Risk: Required For Success.
Obamacare mandates that physicians participating in Medicare or Medicaid have operating compliance programs. Turn the mandate into a strategic advantage. Listen to How To Profit From Mandatory Compliance Programs.
The so-called “Company Model” of providing anesthesia services at an ASC presents serious kickback concerns. But the problem is far greater than simply anesthesia deals. Listen to The “Company Model:” More Than Just An Anesthesia Problem.
The tactics being used by proponents of accountable care organizations against physicians are eerily reminiscent of those used by auto manufacturers to crush the prices charged by their suppliers. Listen to Negotiation Ploys – From Autos To ACOs.
Hospitals are disrupting their longstanding relationships with hospital-based\groups as they seek to cut stipends and get more for nothing. The favored tool? A "weaponized" form of the request for proposal. Listen to How To Navigate The Rising Tide Of Aggressive RFPs.
