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You’re Not Negotiating What You Think You Are

2

Utah Called It A Sandbox. Your Patients Are In It.

3

AI in Medicine: Physician as Puppet or Physician as Puppet Master?

4

How to Escape the Factory-ification of Healthcare

5

The Clinical AI Liability Gap

6

The FTC Just Told You Exactly What It’s Looking For. Is Your Noncompete on the List?

7

AI Isn’t Going to Replace Your Radiologists. It’s Going to Reprice Them.

8

The Anesthesia Workforce Shortage Is Your Group’s Negotiating Leverage (If You Know How to Use It)

9

The Problem With Hospital–Physician “Alignment”

10

The Essential Money Discussion - A Conversation with Financial Planner Justin Harvey

11

A Novel Approach to ASC Structure: Distributions In Proportion to Production.

12

Breaking Down the Breakdown – ER Group Terminated After 35 Years

13

Is the Prohibition on Physician-Owned Hospitals Worsening the Hospital-Based Specialist Shortage?

14

“You Can Trust Us” Is Not a Contract Term

15

Protecting the Group from Distracted Doctoring

16

Five Ophthalmology Practices See Eye to Eye in False Claims Act Settlement

17

When Is a Letter “Mailed”? Postmarks, Contracts, and a Quiet USPS Change with Real Consequences

18

Physicians Fooled into the Ruse of Health System Reform (or, Cows Can’t Reform a Farm Because Farmers Will Never Eat Grass)

19

Off to Prison. An Update on How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud

20

Inside the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

21

Hospitals and the Return of the Company Town

22

Cognitive Biases and Contracting

23

Supermodel Your Way to Healthcare Industry Success

24

How to Use the Law Before it Uses You.

25

Leadership Succession: The Hole You Never Notice Until You Fall Into It

26

The Healthcare Deal Partner Who Can End Your Career

27

THE TIME TO ESTABLISH A BANKING RELATIONSHIP (NOT WHAT YOU LIKELY HAVE NOW) IS TODAY, NOT WHEN YOU NEED ONE

28

Surprise: The No Surprises Act Is Working, Just Not How Insurers Planned

29

Why You Must Understand that the Law is Not Necessarily Your Reality

30

Do You Know What Block Can’t be Pulled From the Deal?

31

Signaling During Medical Group Negotiations

32

Preparation Wins Games and Negotiations

33

Non-Competes After the FTC’s Pivot: A Balancing Act for Medical Group Leaders

34

The FTC Buries Its Ban on Non-Competes, But Sharpens its Aim on Violations

35

From Kings to Contracts: No Love Lost

36

The Anti-RFP: Forward and Reverse Auctions for Physician Services

37

$500 Million in Alleged Phony Charges and the Dangers of Medical Directorship

38

The Prevailing Healthcare Business Model is Upside Down

39

Will Your Business Walk Back in in the Morning?

40

Double Trouble: Prosecuted and Sued for the Same Scam

41

You Can't Lipstick That Pig: Why Physicians Must Carefully Vet Deals

42

Healthcare Fraud and the Physician as Victim

43

The Nation’s Largest Health Care Fraud Bust, Plus Bureaucratic Negligence

44

Why Fail at Optionality?

45

Speak Truth to Numbers

46

A Ban on PE in Medical Practice and a Gutting of Practice Value

47

Pain Doc Likely in Pain After Settling Allegations That Billed Procedures Weren’t Performed

48

Why Hospital-Based Medical Groups Must Exploit Honey Bee Strategy

49

14 Month Prison Term in “Doctor Chasing” Scam

50

DOJ to Focus on Criminal Healthcare Fraud and Prosecuting the Individuals Involved

51

Avoid the Second Biggest Mistake Medical Group Leaders Make

52

You Must Know the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract Negotiation

53

How Medical Group Collaboration Creeps into Fraud—Pass-Through Billing

54

Did They Sell Their Seoul? The $62+ Million Settlement

55

Why Bigger Hospitals May Actually Be More Fragile

56

An Algorithmic Conspiracy? DOJ Weighs In on MultiPlan Case

57

Advanced Practice Providers Aren’t Necessarily the Grout For the Physician Gap

58

Medical Group Growth Without Recruiting

59

The $4 Million Pee Test Scam: How One Lab Owner Flushed His Future

60

Have You Mistakenly Sold Out Your Future for Stipend Support?

61

On Strike. Physician Unionization and the Further Commoditization of Medical Practice.

62

From Insurance Watchdog to Prisoner: A Cautionary Tale for Healthcare Professionals

63

First, Let’s Kill All the Healthcare Systems.

64

How to Almost Make Half a Billion Dollars: The Arizona Wound Graft Fraud

65

Nudge Triggers a $17 Million False Claims Act Settlement

66

What’s Lurking in Your Business Acquisition? Nearly $60 Million in Lessons from Pfizer and Biohaven

67

Will the Whistleblower Law Be Whistled Out?

68

Aetna Health v. Radiology Partners and the Danger of Pass-Through Billing

69

The Crisis Caused By the Lack of Crisis Planning.

70

Lesson from McKinsey - Avoiding Consultants from Hell

71

Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act

72

Probably the Most Valuable Anti-Kickback Lesson of All Time

73

How to Use the Four Circles as a Strategy Tool

74

Switzerland as a Thinking Tool for Medical Group Structure

75

Why You Must Understand Inter-Contractual Dissonance and the Shifting of Power

76

Federal Trade Commission Seek to Reimpose Nationwide Ban on Noncompetes

77

Federal District Court Finds Whistleblower Actions Unconstitutional

78

Leaving Big Medicine? Look Before You Leap.

79

“I Thought They Loved Me!” Is No Defense For the Spurned and Burned “Friendly Physician”

80

What Might Be the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract and Stipend Negotiation.

81

Why Reverse Kickbacks Can Send You Back Up the River

82

The Better Way For Medical Groups To Look At Covenants Not To Compete

83

7 Key Steps to Successful Hospital-Based Group Stipend Negotiations

84

Labor Day: Labor of Love or Just Labor? Some Thoughts on Work, Burnout, and Opportunity

85

You Need to Know What the Order Striking the FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes Means for You

86

Beware of Bogus Medicare and Medicaid Billings

87

Conviction For $70 Million in Fake Medicare Claims Likely Sending Doc to Big House

88

Making The Bet Without Knowing The Odds

89

Snoop Doc Takes The Rap For HIPAA Hop – Faces 5 Years in Pen For Illegally Accessing Medical Records

90

It’s Not Hotel California, But Many Physicians Feel Trapped.

91

Hamburger or Health Care? Why You Must Understand the Dilemma.

92

Telehealth Plus Tell a Lie Means Likely End Up in Prison for Telefraud

93

“Loco Tenens” and Agency Pay $700K to Settle Alleged Telemedicine Kickback Scheme

94

Perhaps “Change Healthcare” Was Always A Cry For Help?

95

Commercial Building Foreclosures Foretell Healthcare Financing Woes – Prepare Now

96

You Didn’t Go to Medical School to Be in Business! Let Us Run It Into the Ground.

97

From CrossFit to Crossing Over from Pure Medical Practice to Lifestyle Business

98

The Use of Banned Messaging Apps Cost Wall Street Banks Close to $2 Billion.

99

Intended Obfuscation or Lazy Drafting, The Outcome’s The Same: You’re Screwed.

100

Does Selling to Private Equity Increase Your Risk of Liability For Healthcare Fraud?

101

She Said, He Heard – A Lesson From Insider Trading to Prevent Your HIPAA Violation

102

OIG Permits Deferred Payment Physician Partner Buyout

103

Overexposed: A Kodak Moment

104

Showing Up On Time and Negotiation

105

Deal School: Contracts Needn't Always Be Contracted

106

Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? Hospital Turns to Crowdfunding to Stay Afloat.

107

Cancer Doctor Turns Out to Be Carcinogenic

108

Why Free* Doesn’t Mean Free

109

Jury Convicts Chief Compliance Officer For $50 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

110

Surprise Hospital Billing

111

All That Glitters Isn't Gold. Is Your Contract Merely Sparkly?

112

Jet Blue-ing Up Your Practice

113

It’s National Kickback Day! (Sort of like Groundhog Day, But More Expensive)

114

Love at First Blight: Surgeon and Fiancée Settle Kickback Allegations

115

A $15 Billion Lesson On Stipend Negotiations

116

Why Document the Value of a Group Member’s Interest?

117

About the Worst Advice You Can Get

118

Breaking the Physician Hospital Paradigm

119

The Healthcare Con-Vergence

120

Don’t Worry About Your Future – The Hospital Has it All Planned

121

Hospital Employment is No Panacea for Physicians

122

The Only Thing the Hospital Has to Fear is Fear Itself

123

I Don't Even Know Where to Begin

124

Who's Driving Your Practice's Bus? II

125

Who's Driving Your Practice's Bus?

126

Lessons on Negotiation from Artie the Briard

127

You Can't Un-Ring That Bell

128

Mistakes Happen

129

Don't Lower Your Goals Just So You Can Say You Hit Them

130

I Want to Become a Partner

131

What's It Cost?

132

A Medical Group in Motion

133

Don't Hinder the Ability of Group Leaders to Lead

134

McDonald’s and Delivering Medical Group Value

135

What's Your Story?

136

Isn't It Time to Re-Brand Non-Profit Hospitals?

137

Your Exclusive Contract Is About to Be Non-Exclusive

138

The Advantage Is To . . .

139

Comfort Zone or Continued Existence, Your Choice

140

Amorality of Institutions – An Additional Argument for Physician Control of Hospitals

141

Audit Medical Group and Physician-Owned Facility Deals in Light of Tomorrow (and Today)

142

Is Your Medical Group Being Governed or Governed?

143

Risky Behavior And Healthcare Businesses

144

You’re Dead. Now What? Succession and Medical Group Governance

145

The Odds of Medical Group Survival

146

Do You Make This Mistake in English?

147

Look Before You Leap: Document Your Deal

148

Physician Talks Out of His (Not) Mouth - Brags of Kickbacks

149

Why Taking Control Is a Smart Contracting Tactic

150

How to Become a Millionaire

151

Bean Counters 1, Patients 0

152

Opting Out to Opt-In for Yourself

153

Showing up on Time and Negotiation

154

Why Document the Value of a Group Member’s Interest?

155

Why Your Past Doesn’t Count

156

Compounding the Kickback Problem

157

Do They Have the Power to Say Yes?

158

What a Marshmallow Says About Your Medical Group’s Future

159

Bedless Hospitals and Physician Opportunities

160

An Alternative Structure for Medical Group Compensation

161

Artists, Patient Satisfaction, and the Creation of Something Out of Nothing

162

It's All Related

163

Your Independence Day

164

Contracts Needn't Always Be Contracted

165

Are All Hospitals Really Price Buyers?

166

Alchemist Can't Turn Outpatients into Inpatients for Less Than $18.3 Million

167

Greatest Hits Compilation - Strategy

168

Take a Hammer to Average

169

The End of Healthcare Symbiosis Might Just Kill the Host (and End the Career of the Hospital CEO)

170

Business Life in the Time of Coronavirus

171

Greatest Hits Compilation - Manage Your Practice

172

Do You Know This About Value?

173

Why You Must Understand How Sky-High Hospital CEO Turnover Impacts Your Practice

174

Are You Asking The Wrong Question About Your Future?

175

Marriage and Medical Group Mergers

176

What the Time Warp Reveals About Healthcare Employment

177

What Does It Cost?

178

Growth For What Sake?

179

Fined for Actual and Potential HIPAA Violations!

180

Avoid Shiny Objects in Health Care Deals

181

Emotions as Drivers of Contractual Relationships

182

Bastiat, a Teenage Magician and Medical Group Decision Making

183

Heres A Tip About Physician Compensation

184

Department Of The Future

185

Building Value Within Your Medical Group

186

Opportunities Knocking In Market Flux

187

Opportunities Knocking in Market Flux

188

Collaboration as a Tool in Negotiation

189

Do You Make This Mistake In Business?

190

Being Liked Is Not the Goal of Negotiation

191

Don’t Step in Unintended Consequences

192

Do You Own Your Practice or Does it Own You?

193

Why Hospitals Don’t Want Employed Physicians to (Really) Succeed

194

Is Your Group Still Sharp? Strategy, Tactics and the Future of Your Medical Group

195

Thank God, You’re About to Be Treated by the Chief Transformation Officer!

196

Hospital-Based Services, Not Hot Dogs

197

Doctor Settles Allegations but Doesn’t Admit She Can’t Be Two Places at the Same Time

198

Group Therapy Needed to Protect Hospital-Based Physician Income?

199

A Refresher on Price Versus Value

200

Free $10.6 Million Dollar Lesson on How Not to Fire Physicians

201

Control the Document to Control the Deal

202

Deteriorated Insulation From the Hassles of Running A Medical Practice

203

Customer Service: Not Enough. Too Much. Hardly Ever Just Right.

204

Stranger Blows the Whistle – Expanded False Claims Danger

205

FMV Is No More Anti-Kickback Compliance Than Ground Pepper Is Pot Roast

206

What’s the Downside Risk for Hospital Executives?

207

"But Everyone’s Doing It!!" Not a Great Defense to Compliance Violations

208

Don’t Be Surprised by the No Surprises Act Notice and Good Faith Estimate Requirements

209

Why You Must Control the Context to Influence the Outcome

210

It's Never the Right Time

211

What's Your Choice: Mediocre Advancement or Transformational Improvement?

212

What's Your Business Horizon?

213

How Scenario Surveys Strengthen Medical Group Strategy

214

Allegations Punch ENT in the Nose. He Sinuses Off on Multi-Million Dollar Settlement.

215

What You Need to Know About a Healthcare CEO Headed to Prison in Order to Avoid the Same Fate.

216

Why Contract Termination Provisions Are Like Highway Exits

217

The Mismatch of Story and Culture Within Medical Groups

218

Government Created Healthcare Shortages Courtesy of Elected Morons and Bureaucrat Fools

219

Whether or Not Balloon Sinuplasty Indictment is Hot Air, its Lessons Apply to You

220

Hiring the Shunned: Failure to Check Exclusion Status Drives Psychiatrist Crazy...

221

Lab Made Kickbacks? Allegations Lead to 10 Indictments. How Not to be Number 11.

222

Refill on Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure or Kickback Lure?

223

The Inflation Tax

224

Don't Confuse Strategy with Tactics (or with Garbage)

225

Why You Must Harness the Power of the Flea

226

Why Speed Saves

227

The Strategy Of Power In Negotiations

228

Time Travel

229

Creating Interlocking Physician-Owned Ventures

230

That Knife in Your Back Has Your Partner’s Fingerprints on It

231

The Covid Impact on Healthcare Entity Valuation

232

The Devaluation of Value Based Billing

233

Termination Notice

234

Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without A Hospital

235

Do You Know This Key To Negotiation?

236

Building Value Within Your Medical Group

237

You Are Not A Service

238

Utilizing a Unit Concept to Drive Success

239

From Pigs to Model T's to Medical Care

240

Group Therapy Needed to Protect Hospital-Based Physician Income?

241

Consider the Concept of Segmenting Your Service Offerings

242

The Rise of the Machines: Dr. Watson, Al and the Future of Your Medical Group

243

Taken The Wrong Job?

244

Rainbows, Unicorns, and Fraudulent ASC Deals

245

I’m A Partner. I’ll Do What I Want To.

246

Medical Group Termites

247

Cleveland Clinic Unit Pays $21.25 Million to Resolve Kickback Case

248

“Covid Ate My Homework” Won’t Keep You Out of Jail

249

Criminals Go Phishing in Florida and Catch Unsuspecting Medical Group

250

CMS Opines That Stark Isn’t That Stark – Advisory Opinion Guidance

251

Does Your Group's Compensation Plan Measure Up?

252

Felonious Forest Park Physicians Freighted Off To Federal Prison

253

What Every Physician Needs to Know About a California Anesthesia Group’s Bankruptcy

254

What Are You Dreaming?

255

Does Your Group’s Compensation Plan Measure Up?

256

Are You Sure You're Insured for a Cyber-Attack?

257

The Other Final Four: Hospital Executives Sentenced to Prison

258

Was the Cure Worse Than the Disease?

259

Insurers Help Themselves By Helping You Help Patients . . . At Your ASC

260

UnitedHealth Pushing Business to ASCs and Outpatient Imaging

261

State Board and Hospital Recommend Against Better Care at a Lower Cost to Consumers

262

Surgeon and Controlled Companies Pay $4.5 Million Settlement

263

Why Blindly Copying Rarely Works

264

What? Merged Hospitals Don’t Deliver Higher Quality!

265

Is Your Group Still Sharp? Strategy, Tactics and the Future of Your Medical Group

266

Adopting the Contingency Mindset to Improve Your Business

267

Surgeon Gets Just Desserts for Healthcare Fraud

268

Free $10.6 Million Dollar Lesson on How Not to Fire Physicians

269

Don’t Do the Crime if You Can’t Do the Time as Hospital CEO

270

IBM Might Be Kicking Watson Health to the Curb: The Danger in Big Data

271

Don't Step In Unintended Consequences

272

L'air du Temps

273

Ghost Of Eliot Ness Busts 345 Defendants In Nation’s Largest Opioid-Fueled

274

Is It Really Easier To Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital

275

Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure

276

Medical Practice Admits Guilt Pays $100 Million. Physician President Now Indicted.

277

How to Have a Flexible Future: Paging Dr. Gumby

278

To Serve Man

279

What Can the Owner of a Plumbing Company Teach Medical Group Leaders?

280

Does Your Group Own Its Future or Are You Merely Renting It?

281

Why You're Unbalanced If You Believe In Work Life Balance

282

Satisficing Your Way To Success

283

Let's Find The Cure For Surprise Physician Stealing

284

Understanding Valuation Isn’t Sufficient To Solve Your Economic Problems...

285

Two Frauds Aren’t Better Than One: Second of the NextHealth & Forest Park Fraud Twins Sentenced

286

Don't Let An Acronym Dictate Your Business Structure

287

Why Your Medical Group Might Be Headed Down The Cliff And How To Stop It

288

Who Really Owns Your Medical Group?

289

What Do You Call A Hospital With Irrelevant ORs Other Than “Bankrupt”?

290

Super Bowl Ads And Medical Group Leaders

291

Value And The Cost Of Not Providing It

292

Uniforms, Uniformity, and Conformity in Healthcare

293

"A Laptop! A Laptop! My Kingdom For a Laptop!"

294

“Free With Purchase” May Sell Cosmetics, but “Free With Referral” Is a Bad Marketing Idea

295

You Can Hold the Mayo, but Mayo Can’t Hold on to Hospital

296

Why You Should Have Fired Them

297

Why The Lack Of Power Corrupts Absolutely

298

What You Must Know About Opportunities, Euphemisms, and Power: Group “Buys” Competitors for Nothing

299

The Problem Is The Cure

300

Surprise(Medical Bills! Language, Framing And Your Bank Account

301

Models, Predictions, And Quickly Changing

302

How To Avoid $46 Million Dollar Compliance Mistake

303

Hospital Performs Surgery on Itself and Cuts Off More Than Half Its Beds

304

Doctor Exclaims, “I Wasn’t The Target, So Why Are They Gunning For Me?"

305

Free Stay Out Of Jail Pass

306

Don’t Let Models Dictate Your Business Structure

307

Solving The Physician Retirement Crisis

308

Walmart Understands Action. Most Physician Leaders Just Understand Reaction

309

Maneuvering Your Way Out of Crises Coronavirus and Otherwise

310

More On Making Your Business Antifragile

311

Physician Practice Consolidator Gets Owned

312

Fast Times And The Problem With Slow Medical Group Decision Making

313

Four Doctors, $150 Million, And 6.6 Million Doses Of Opioids. What Could Go Wrong?

314

Hospital Sues Medical Group. Medical Group Returns the Favor. Both Likely Lose

315

This Is Why You Keep Screwing Yourself When Negotiating Deals

316

Walgreens Slims Number Of In-Store Clinics

317

I Can See Clearly Now Ophthalmology Group Settles Fraud Claim

318

The Impact Of Change On Your Medical Practice

319

Business In The Time Of Coronavirus - Part 5

320

Business In The Time of Coronavirus - Part 4

321

Business In The Time Of Coronavirus - Part 3

322

Business In The Time Of Coronavirus - Part 2

323

Business in the Time of Coronavirus – Part 1

324

A Not So Love Triangle: When PE Met AKS Who Met Stark

325

Walgreens Slims Number Of In Store Clinics

326

I Can See Clearly Now. Ophthalmology Group Settles Fraud Claim

327

Stars Don't Audition, Why Are You Responding To That RFP?

328

Deteriorated Insulation From The Hassles Of Running A Medical Practice

329

Hospital Sues Medical Group. Medical Group Returns The Favor. Both Likely Lose...

330

Sexual Harassment Is In The News, Make Sure Your Group Or Facilities Name Isn’t Included

331

Fast Times And The Problem With Slow Medical Group Decision Making

332

Physician Discontent With Hospital Employment Beginning To Boil

333

A Not So Love Triangle: When PE Met AKS Who Met Stark

334

Hospital Abandons Physician ASC Partners

335

Compound Drugs: Miracle Cure Or Kickback Lure?

336

Repurposing A Failing Or Closed Hospital

337

What Herman Cain Knows About The Defect In Medical Group Compensation Plans

338

Stranger Blows The Whistle - Expanded False Claims Danger

339

$2.6 Billion Collected By Feds From Compliance Cheats. ROI Makes Warren Buffet Look Like An Amateur

340

4.89 Billion (Dollar) Reasons for Physicians To Love Owning Surgery Centers

341

Allegations of Underpaid Debt Lands Big Healthcare Players in Whistleblower Hell

342

Anesthesia Company Model Arrangement Fuels $1.718 Million Dollar FCA Settlement

343

Blowing Up Your ASC Because Of Confusion Of Purpose

344

CMS Cuts Payments to Hospital Outpatient Clinics By 40%

345

Community Hospitals Must Change Or Die. Change Presents Opportunity For Entrepreneurial Physicians

346

Driverless Cars Might Not Crash But They Will Impact The Business Of Healthcare

347

Former Tenet Healthcare Executives Facing Criminal Trials For Kickbacks

348

How Many Felonies Have You Committed Today?

349

Sam Walton’s Failure Is A Lesson For Medical Groups - Rebroadcast

350

Surprise Medical Bills Language Framing And Your Bank Account

351

Uncompensated Medical Directorship Leads to $3.2 Million False Claims Act Settlement

352

What You Need To Know About The High Cost Of 15 Minutes Of Fame, HIPAA Edition

353

Why You Must Understand the Intersection Of Incentives And Negotiation Strategy

354

Hospital Abandons Physician ASC Partners

355

Physician Discontent With Hospital Employment Beginning To Boil

356

Repurposing A Failing Or Closed Hospital

357

What Herman Cain Knows About The Defect In Medical Group Compensation Plans

358

Firefighters, Fear, And The Future Of Your Medical Group

359

FTC Challenge To Sanford Health/Mid Dakota Clinic Physician Group Merger And The Lesson For You

360

How To Put Your Finger On The Scale Of Patient Satisfaction

361

How Walmart's Latest Healthcare Announcement Can Be Your Key To Higher Prices

362

One Giant Leap Toward Success: Avoid One Simple Misstep For “Fraud-kind”

363

Clueless and Dangerous - “Your Medical Records Are Safe Because They’re Entered into Our System”

364

The Combination To Joint Ventures

365

Physician Behind Bars for Referrals: Kickbacks, Bribes, And Mail Fraud

366

Walmart Explores New Healthcare Delivery Concept

367

The Looming Horrible Impact of FMV on Physician Compensation

368

Do You Measure Up Or Measure Down? Efficiency Vs. Efficacy

369

Augmented Unreality And Medical Group Success

370

Tastes Like Chicken. Smells Like Fraud.

371

Why You Must Know This Negotiation Strategy: Think Like A Buyer Not A Seller

372

Disruptive Physicians And Avoiding The Death Of Your Medical Group

373

Why You Need to Adopt the Contingency Mindset

374

Why You Need to Adopt the Contingency Mindset

375

Yes, You Can Build a Health System Without A Hospital

376

Why You Need To Understand The Concept of Lifetime Value

377

History Rhymes In Healthcare Just As It Does In Home Delivery Services: Ride The Trend

378

Augmented Unreality And Medical Group Success

379

Not All Money Is Green - Don't Confuse Hospital Loans With Stipends

380

For Sale - Slightly Used ASC

381

Marrying For Money - One Hospitals Merger Urge Is Your Negotiating Lesson

382

Why You Must Know About A University’s Captive Medical Group Filing Bankruptcy

383

Another Medical Staff Moves To Fire the Hospital CEO

384

Fraud On Physicians In The ASC Setting

385

Driverless Cars And The Impending Death Of Hospitals

386

Don't Confuse Strategy With Tactics (Or With Garbage)

387

Does More Financial Pressure On Hospitals Signal The Return Of Questionable Medical Directorships?

388

Hospitals Beg To Be Aligned By Physicians!

389

Why It's Easy to Be Knocked Off Course

390

Why Your Price Has Nothing to Do With Cost

391

Hospital Divorces Anesthesia Group After Twenty-Four Years of Marriage

392

Conflicts of Interest: Do You Have One?

393

Medical Group Mergers: Making 1 + 1 = 3

394

Who's Your Competition?

395

No More Walk In The Park For Convicted Forest Park Defendants

396

Listen In To A Kickback Conversation

397

Have You Coordinated Your Contracts?

398

Do You Know This Key To Negotiation?

399

Complain. Get Fired. Get $17.5 Million.

400

Building Value Within Your Medical Group

401

Hospital System Settles Whistleblower Allegations That Outpatients Were “Turned Into” Inpatients

402

But Does It Work In The Real World? Second Order Thinking And The Perfect Legal Structure

403

How To Navigate The Rising Tide Of Aggressive RFPs

404

How The Downward Spiral Of Fair Market Valuation Will Destroy Your Future

405

How To Cure Physician Group (Un)Governance

406

Harnessing Group Pressure In Negotiation

407

Negotiation Ploys – From Autos To ACOs

408

The “Company Model:” More Than Just An Anesthesia Problem

409

How To Profit From Mandatory Compliance Programs

410

Socialism Is Alive And Well Within Medical Groups

411

Are You Headed To The Healthcare Factory?

412

Managing Risk: Required For Success

413

The Healthcare Con-Vergence

414

Accountable Care Organizations: Accountable To Whom

415

To Control The To Control The Contract, Control The Context

416

Creative Destruction

417

How To Secure Customer Satisfaction

418

Ignoring The Perceived Bounds Of Weakness

419

How Scenario Surveys Strengthen Medical Group Strategy

420

Is Your Group A Vendor Or A Partner?

421

How a Hospital Based Group Can Profit From Problems

422

Opportunities Knocking In Market Flux

423

Why Hospitals Don’t Want Employed Physicians to (Really) Succeed

424

Do You See Your Group As It Is Or As You Wish It Were?

425

The Group-Physician Relationship

426

Don’t Worry About Your Future – The Hospital Has It All Planned

427

Avoiding The Bureaucratic Web

428

The Chicken, The Pig And The ACO

429

The Two Classes Of Hospital Based Medical Group Disruptors

430

Protecting Your Practice In Today's "We" Society

431

The Same Amount Of Money As An Employed Physician Is Worth Less

432

How Much Should You Charge To Respond To That RFP?

433

Two Wolves and A Lamb

434

Physicians Must Brand Their Role In Healthcare Or Suffer the Consequences

435

Shadowing The Competition

436

The Super Bowl And Medical Group Success

437

The Promise-Delivery Gap

438

Hospital Employment Is No Panacea For Physicians

439

Who Asked The Patient If She Wants A Hospitalist?

440

Breaking The Chains Of The New Normal

441

The One With Earl Ongman Of Sierra Health Services - Part 1

442

The One With Earl Ongman Of Sierra Health Services - Part 2

443

Resolving Healthcare Market Pressure

444

Why Let Your Competitors Control Your Future?

445

Is Your Medical Practice A Social Service Or A Business?

446

Yin and Yang. Contract Term And Termination

447

Jurassic Park And PHI - Leaks Are Inevitable

448

Avoid The Error Of Measuring Success Only By Action

449

What A Plumber Can Teach You About Hiring Physicians

450

Are You Playing To Win Or Just Playing Not To Lose?

451

The One With Greg Zinser Of Medac - Part2

452

It Is What It Is

453

I Don’t Even Know Where To Begin

454

Verisimilitude And Success

455

Who Is Driving Your Practice's Bus?

456

Breaking The Chains Of The New Normal

457

Carve Outs As Kickbacks In The Hospital Setting

458

How To Create The Balance Your Group Needs In Order To Thrive

459

The 83% And Concierge Care

460

Is The Traditional Hospital-Based Service Model Dead?

461

Strive For Simple

462

The One With Reed Tinsley Of Reed Tinsley, CPA

463

Probability Of Loss - Prevention And Contingent Mitigation Of Business Risk

464

Entrepreneurial Practice Vs. Bureaucratic Existence

465

Are You Protecting The Right Turf?

466

Independent Anesthesia Group Success In A Segmented Market

467

Creating Transformational Contracts

468

Does Your Medical Group Have A Success Prevention Department?

469

Will The Anesthesiologist Be The Only Physician In The O.R.?

470

Sun Tzu And Group Strategy

471

Wringing Profit From Physician Group Compliance: Operational Compliance

472

How Strong Is Your Medical Group's Foundation?

473

Unifying Your Group

474

In Terms Of Thinking About The Future, Are Practicing Physicians Really Different From Residents?

475

How Sharp Is Your Group? Strategy, Tactics And The Future Of Your Medical Group

476

Demonstrating Involvement - A Required Part Of Hospital Negotiation In A Communal Society

477

Act On Company Model Threats As Soon As They Surface

478

Tying Your Medical Group’s Future To A Rock

479

All Hospitals Should Be Physician Controlled

480

Hostess Twinkies And Hospital-Centric Healthcare

481

Lessons On Negotiation From Artie The Briard

482

You Can’t Un-Ring That Bell

483

Competing On The Basis Of Common Courtesy

484

A Tear In The Fabric Of Medical Groups

485

Layoff Doctors

486

Top Down Healthcare Is Killing Your Business And (Literally) Killing You And Me

487

A Kodak Moment

488

Contracts Don't Contain Extra Baggage

489

No Meeting Of The Minds

490

Employment Insecurity

491

Technology, Rules And Compliance

492

Negotiation: Why Times 5

493

Efforts Don't Necessarily Equal Value

494

The One With Christine Roberts, ERISA Expert

495

Survey Yourself

496

Burgers Must Be Burgers, But Doctors Might Just Not Be Physicians

497

Spare Change

498

Preserving The Past

499

Do You Really Want This Smaller Future?

500

Does Your Group Believe In Itself?

501

Is There This Disconnect Within Your Medical Group?

502

Does Your Group's Compensation Plan Suffer From This Defect?

503

Carlitos And The Crisis Of Customer Service