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WSJ Article on MD Referrals & Leakage: Beware of Premature Conclusions
The question we should be asking is “How can we best align the interests of patients, physicians and hospital systems in referral decisions?”
The answer sometimes might be to make a referral outside of the hospital system — but let’s not jump to premature conclusions.
The Practice of Medicine: from Marcus Welby to ???
by Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA
Physicians face great uncertainty. According to a survey conducted by The Physicians Foundation, the great majority of physicians (89%) believe the traditional model of independent private practice is either “on shaky ground” or “is a dinosaur soon to go extinct.”
In the face of this uncertainty, many physicians are jumping to a conclusion that “I have to sell my practice to the hospital.” In this post of our series on The […]
Physician-Hospital Relationships: The Hospital Morphs from Revenue Center to Cost Center
by Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA and Jaan Sidorov MD, MHSA, FACP
In our introductory posting of this series, we noted that economic incentives previously aligning doctor-hospital interests were changing. This creates the potential for The 100 Year Shift – physicians awakening to possibilities for stronger partnerships with payers than with hospitals.
In this post, we will zero in on the changing economic position of hospitals and the effect this is having on physician-hospital relationships. We will examine the […]