Patient satisfaction surveys are becoming a real part of reimbursement, driving a significant percentage of money.

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, starting now in January 2019, Walmart is requiring employees needing spine surgery to travel to certain contracted hospitals for their surgery.

The large red machine lumbered forward from behind, lights flashing. A fire engine heading off to a fire.

As horrible as a fire is — the danger involved, the risk of loss to the home or business owner — there’s also an inherent opportunity: an opportunity to rebuild, to renovate, and to renew. The stories of the phoenix or of Noah and the flood.

Creative destruction is taking aim directly at community hospitals. You can fight to save them. But if they’ve failed, you can, á la Shumpeter (and Weiss), take part in creating, phoenix-like, far more appropriate healthcare solutions for your community and for your profit.

If you’re a physician, it’s all too likely that you’re uncertain about the future, feel the pressure of an all too real governmentally imposed ceiling on your income, and have even less control than ever over your time.

Like a bear emerging from its long winter nap, the Federal Trade Commission is hungry to enforce antitrust law in the healthcare sector, including, notably, in connection with monopolization through mergers in the market for physician services.

You may have seen their websites: Anesthesia "practice management companies" that advertise "no stipends!" to obtain facility contracts.

How many compliance related crimes have you or your colleagues or employees committed today, whether purposefully or, completely inadvertently?

In one fell swoop, CMS pulled the rug out from under hospital control of physician practice, rendering many, if not almost all, hospital outpatient clinics unprofitable.

In one fell swoop, CMS pulled the rug out from under hospital control of physician practice, rendering many, if not almost all, hospital outpatient clinics unprofitable.