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The AI Time Bomb In Your Contracts
Prosecuted For An Employee's Crime?
Always Be Contracting
Are They Banning Corporate Practice of Medicine if Hospitals Get a Pass?
Ghost Medical Directors Haunted by Medical Boards
The DOJ Doesn’t Care That You Didn’t Know
Stop Treating Your BAA Like Toilet Paper
Devil’s AI Advocate - What If the Doctor Is the Weak Link?
Prosecuted by Algorithm? What Every Physician Must Know About the DOJ’s Renewed Attack on Healthcare Fraud.
Burnout: Physicians as “Renters” in the Rent Seekers’ World
The Impending Death of the Friendly Physician Model
Countertrends: Why AI May Save the Physician-Patient Relationship
The Age of Agency
The Rise of the Portfolio Physician
When the Machine Speaks: AI, Physician Liability, and the Future of the Learned Intermediary
Medical Group Mergers and Un-Governance - Planning for Failure and Calling it Strategy
The Rent Seekers Are Doing You a Favor
You’re Not Negotiating What You Think You Are
Utah Called It A Sandbox. Your Patients Are In It.
AI in Medicine: Physician as Puppet or Physician as Puppet Master?
How to Escape the Factory-ification of Healthcare
The Clinical AI Liability Gap
The FTC Just Told You Exactly What It’s Looking For. Is Your Noncompete on the List?
AI Isn’t Going to Replace Your Radiologists. It’s Going to Reprice Them.
The Anesthesia Workforce Shortage Is Your Group’s Negotiating Leverage (If You Know How to Use It)
The Problem With Hospital–Physician “Alignment”
The Essential Money Discussion - A Conversation with Financial Planner Justin Harvey
A Novel Approach to ASC Structure: Distributions In Proportion to Production.
Breaking Down the Breakdown – ER Group Terminated After 35 Years
Is the Prohibition on Physician-Owned Hospitals Worsening the Hospital-Based Specialist Shortage?
“You Can Trust Us” Is Not a Contract Term
Protecting the Group from Distracted Doctoring
Five Ophthalmology Practices See Eye to Eye in False Claims Act Settlement
When Is a Letter “Mailed”? Postmarks, Contracts, and a Quiet USPS Change with Real Consequences
Physicians Fooled into the Ruse of Health System Reform (or, Cows Can’t Reform a Farm Because Farmers Will Never Eat Grass)
Off to Prison. An Update on How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud
Inside the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Hospitals and the Return of the Company Town
Cognitive Biases and Contracting
Supermodel Your Way to Healthcare Industry Success
How to Use the Law Before it Uses You.
Leadership Succession: The Hole You Never Notice Until You Fall Into It
The Healthcare Deal Partner Who Can End Your Career
THE TIME TO ESTABLISH A BANKING RELATIONSHIP (NOT WHAT YOU LIKELY HAVE NOW) IS TODAY, NOT WHEN YOU NEED ONE
Surprise: The No Surprises Act Is Working, Just Not How Insurers Planned
Why You Must Understand that the Law is Not Necessarily Your Reality
Do You Know What Block Can’t be Pulled From the Deal?
Signaling During Medical Group Negotiations
Preparation Wins Games and Negotiations
Non-Competes After the FTC’s Pivot: A Balancing Act for Medical Group Leaders
The FTC Buries Its Ban on Non-Competes, But Sharpens its Aim on Violations
From Kings to Contracts: No Love Lost
The Anti-RFP: Forward and Reverse Auctions for Physician Services
$500 Million in Alleged Phony Charges and the Dangers of Medical Directorship
The Prevailing Healthcare Business Model is Upside Down
Will Your Business Walk Back in in the Morning?
Double Trouble: Prosecuted and Sued for the Same Scam
You Can't Lipstick That Pig: Why Physicians Must Carefully Vet Deals
Healthcare Fraud and the Physician as Victim
The Nation’s Largest Health Care Fraud Bust, Plus Bureaucratic Negligence
Why Fail at Optionality?
Speak Truth to Numbers
A Ban on PE in Medical Practice and a Gutting of Practice Value
Pain Doc Likely in Pain After Settling Allegations That Billed Procedures Weren’t Performed
Why Hospital-Based Medical Groups Must Exploit Honey Bee Strategy
14 Month Prison Term in “Doctor Chasing” Scam
DOJ to Focus on Criminal Healthcare Fraud and Prosecuting the Individuals Involved
Avoid the Second Biggest Mistake Medical Group Leaders Make
You Must Know the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract Negotiation
How Medical Group Collaboration Creeps into Fraud—Pass-Through Billing
Did They Sell Their Seoul? The $62+ Million Settlement
Why Bigger Hospitals May Actually Be More Fragile
An Algorithmic Conspiracy? DOJ Weighs In on MultiPlan Case
Advanced Practice Providers Aren’t Necessarily the Grout For the Physician Gap
Medical Group Growth Without Recruiting
The $4 Million Pee Test Scam: How One Lab Owner Flushed His Future
Have You Mistakenly Sold Out Your Future for Stipend Support?
On Strike. Physician Unionization and the Further Commoditization of Medical Practice.
From Insurance Watchdog to Prisoner: A Cautionary Tale for Healthcare Professionals
First, Let’s Kill All the Healthcare Systems.
How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud
Nudge Triggers a $17 Million False Claims Act Settlement
What’s Lurking in Your Business Acquisition? Nearly $60 Million in Lessons from Pfizer and Biohaven
Will the Whistleblower Law Be Whistled Out?
Aetna Health v. Radiology Partners and the Danger of Pass-Through Billing
The Crisis Caused By the Lack of Crisis Planning.
Lesson from McKinsey - Avoiding Consultants from Hell
Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act
Probably the Most Valuable Anti-Kickback Lesson of All Time
How to Use the Four Circles as a Strategy Tool
Switzerland as a Thinking Tool for Medical Group Structure
Why You Must Understand Inter-Contractual Dissonance and the Shifting of Power
Federal Trade Commission Seek to Reimpose Nationwide Ban on Noncompetes
Federal District Court Finds Whistleblower Actions Unconstitutional
Leaving Big Medicine? Look Before You Leap.
“I Thought They Loved Me!” Is No Defense For the Spurned and Burned “Friendly Physician”
What Might Be the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract and Stipend Negotiation.
Why Reverse Kickbacks Can Send You Back Up the River
The Better Way For Medical Groups To Look At Covenants Not To Compete
7 Key Steps to Successful Hospital-Based Group Stipend Negotiations