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We enable physician entrepreneurs and their allies to transform the business of healthcare and their futures.
We provide intensive, relationship-based counsel on a wide range of healthcare law issues.
Our focus lies at the strategic level, helping you drive transformational improvement of your business relationships.
Our clients tend to be large, physician-owned medical groups, extremely entrepreneurial physicians involved in a wide range of healthcare ventures, and physician-controlled outpatient facilities such as ASCs, imaging centers, and similar such ventures.
Upcoming Presentation:
Structuring Medical Group Governance
Hospitals increasingly offer stipend support to anesthesia groups, but these deals often come with strings that erode independence. In the Spring 2025 Issue of Communiqué, published by Coronis Health, Mark unpacks how exclusivity clauses, staffing controls, and termination terms can turn support into control—and how groups can negotiate smarter to protect their future. Read the full piece to learn ways to stay independent and secure support for your group.
In this episode, Justin and Mark discuss key strategies for operating a successful and efficient anesthesia group.
Drawing on decades of experience advising medical groups across the country, Mark offers practical insights on optimizing operations, improving profitability, and navigating the complex regulatory and business landscape of modern healthcare.
Whether you're a practice owner, administrator, or clinician looking to improve the performance of your group, this conversation delivers actionable advice for achieving long-term success.
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DOJ to Focus on Criminal Healthcare Fraud and Prosecuting the Individuals Involved
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The Nation’s Largest Health Care Fraud Bust, Plus Bureaucratic Negligence
It’s been said that people read published lists of disciplined fellow professionals out of a sense of schadenfreude, the pleasure derived from another’s misfortune.
Leasing Out Your Medical License? From a Few Bucks to a Felony
As physicians get squeezed by insurers and other payers, including Medicare, and as operational costs increase, more are looking for ways to supplement their income.
14 Month Prison Term in “Doctor Chasing” Scam
There’s huge danger in any arrangement in which you put your prescribing imprimatur on any script or order for any item, especially those reimbursed by Medicare
Avoid the Second Biggest Mistake Medical Group Leaders Make
Someone at a conference asked me what’s the biggest mistake medical group leaders make. That’s easy, I told him, it’s not engaging me to represent them.
Why Fail at Optionality?
Although dollars are a lubricant, the real issue is freedom or optionality.
A Ban on PE in Medical Practice and a Gutting of Practice Value
Certainly, Oregon is a small state in terms of medical practice, but what’s happened in Oregon could, and some say will, spread across the country.
Memorial Day 2025
We analogize business to war. Litigation to battle. Negotiation to struggle. We tend to forget that our ability to engage in analogies while safely ensconced in our homes ...
You Must Know the No. 1 Mistake in Exclusive Contract Negotiation
Here’s the #1 mistake, the Achilles’ heel of the negotiations between a medical group and a hospital in connection with the terms of an exclusive contract.