Several years ago, I read a review in a magazine for consultants of a new book by an “expert” who advises that since business now moves at the speed of light, the “old” strategic question of “where do you want to be X years from now?” must now be “where do you want to be a […]

In the Wild West days of the 1980s and 90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see as many medical directors receiving stipends from a hospital as there are aspirins in a Costco-size bottle. There were medical directors of this and medical directors of that. All designed, of course, to cement or bond or align (which, in […]

For years, hospitals have pushed to “align” physicians. Take a ride with Mark as he talks about a reversal in the trend: As what were hospital cases now flow out to independent ASCs, hospitals are begging to be aligned with physicians. But why allow a hospital to be a partner in your ASC deal? Comment […]

They say that a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step. Note that the saying doesn’t discriminate between heading in the right direction or the wrong direction. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

We all place a different value on what we receive and we’re willing to pay a comparable price. It has nothing to do with the cost to the producer or provider. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

We still love you but, hey, we’re in love with someone else who spends less on clothes stipends. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.comAudio Player

Conflicts of interest. Everyone’s talking about them. Do you have one? They’re apparently bad. Or are they? Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

We kids joked that “new math” was going to make 1 plus 1 equal 3. Despite our teacher’s inability to conceive that it ever could, in the domain of medical group mergers 1 plus 1 can equal 3. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

Let’s say that you’re the CEO of a hospital with fifty or five hundred employed physicians. Who’s your competition? The hospital five miles down the road? Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

Hospitals are focusing their hard and few-earned dollars exactly where it counts, spending big bucks on the physician executives who will surely rescue them from nosocomial existential syndrome: chief officers of this or that trendy trend. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com