Patient satisfaction surveys are becoming a real part of reimbursement, driving a significant percentage of money. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. […]

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

You may have seen their websites: Anesthesia “practice management companies” that advertise “no stipends!” to obtain facility contracts.   Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

How many compliance related crimes have you or your colleagues or employees committed today, whether purposefully or, completely inadvertently? Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

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. Comment or contact me if you’d like to discuss this post. Mark F. Weiss www.weisspc.com

Chasing down HIPAA violations isn’t just about enforcing compliance, it’s about the government collecting big bucks. Listen in as we discuss a recent settlement of an actual HIPAA violation. And even more troubling, learn about another HIPAA breach settlement that didn’t even involve am actual HIPAA breach . . . only a potential one. Scared? […]