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Switzerland as a Thinking Tool for Medical Group Structure
Medical group organizers generally confine their entity's business structure to a corporate or partnership type entity and then proceed to conduct business through it.
The Crisis Caused By the Lack of Crisis Planning.
Although any particular crisis can’t be predicted, classes of crisis are capable of prediction and, even if that is not true of a specific situation, the way in which your group or business will respond...
Now’s The Time to Overturn the No Surprises Act
Re-frame the issue for what it really is: Surprise physician services stealing. Now’s the time for the No Surprises Act, and each state counterpart, to go.
Thanksgiving -- Be Grateful for Competitors Like This.
There are stupid questions. And there are certainly stupid statements. But even so, they often present a kernel of wisdom for your taking.
Why You Must Understand Inter-Contractual Dissonance and...
We eat that donut, yet we want to lose 7 pounds. We buy that bracelet, but we told our spouse that we’re getting our spending under control.
Lesson from McKinsey -- Avoiding Consultants from Hell
Are you sure those consultants are helping to improve your business? Or are they potentially sending you to jail?
Probably the Most Valuable Anti-Kickback Lesson of All Time
Although no one is going to do time as a result of thinking that wet sidewalks cause rain, in the case of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, confusion over correlation can put you in jail.
Who Really Needs Whom? Hospitals and Employed Physicians.
By the early years of the 20th Century, hospitals became large healthcare factories due to the size and expense of what was then cutting edge technology...
Federal Trade Commission Seek to Reimpose Nationwide Ban on Noncompetes
The volleys in this battle move slowly--think pendulum as opposed to ping-pong. And right now, despite the appeal, the pendulum is still on the side of “state law controls”.