It’s no secret that hospital-based medical groups, particularly anesthesia and radiology groups, are experiencing significant trouble recruiting and retaining their professional staff due to increasing compensation demands combined with declining reimbursement.

Many people identify with the concept of “work-life balance,” and it’s valid for them.

Despite the fact that some states have strong prohibitions against the enforcement of non-competes, there are still ways to create agreements functioning as proxies for non-competes.

Certifying to Medicare that you’re here when you’re really there is a ticket to nowhere, or maybe to jail.

Health care fraud is far from harmless. Fraudulent activities drain billions from health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid, leading to higher taxes and less money for other important services.

Making The Bet Without Knowing The Odds by Mark F. Weiss

You’re signed in to the hospital’s electronic medical record system. What’s the harm in just typing in the name of a friend to see what pops up?

According to 2023 reports, by 2021, nearly 70% of physicians were employed by hospitals or investor-owned corporations.

No, I don’t have a crystal ball and I can’t predict the future. But that doesn’t mean that I’m blind and can’t see a cliff dropping off on the near horizon.

Telehealth can be used to vastly improve patients’ access to medical care. At the same time, it can be used to vastly improve criminals’ access to Medicare dollars. It shouldn’t be that difficult for physicians to assess the bona fides of their proposed participation in a telehealth “business model” when the ones doing the proposing are telemarketers.