What policies does your group have? How are they enforced . . . or even, how can they be enforced?

Picture a revolving door. Even though many physicians and facility administrators don’t realize it, a revolving door can be a useful analogy for anti-kickback analysis. Or, I suppose, just for kickbacks.

I remember, as a kid, walking around Disneyland, noticing yellow "no parking" size signs labeled Kodak Moment. They indicated a great vantage point for taking a photo.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that being late signals your importance or your power.

There are many reasons why contracts are usually contracted -- made compact, that is -- by having them contained within one fully integrated document.

I’ve written about hospital closures, shrinking hospitals, and hospitals that became holes in the ground. I’ve even written an entire book on The Impending Death of Hospitals. But before today, I’ve never written about a hospital that turned to crowdfunding to stay afloat.

I represent physicians in transactions across the country and there are plenty of ways to make a profit and to do the right thing for patients.

I was driving when I saw the sign, one of those large plasticized canvas ones, tacked up on the side of a small office building: "FREE* First Chiropractic Visit"

As I’ve mentioned many times on the blog, medical groups and facilities often create whistleblowers – their own compliance officers and other executives flip on them with regularity.

What’s a hospital surprise bill? Well, it’s something slightly different from the concept applied to physicians.

Not only is all that glitters not gold, shipping containers thought to contain nickel might just contain carbon steel.

What is your back up plan in the event that your preventive action fails?

Sometimes, I think it's Groundhog Day. No, not the Punxsutawney Phil kind, but the Bill Murray movie kind, you know, when things keep repeating themselves over and over and over again. Like stupid kickback schemes.

Love may be blind, but whistleblowers aren't.

We’ll take your $15 billion stipend, but as to those strings you put on it, “F*^%” you”.

They say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

The context was the sale of various healthcare facilities, deals which, by definition, involve the sale of the business...

The paradigm for physician hospital relations is completely at odds with society's other trends.

How will physicians fit within the bureaucratically envisioned healthcare system of the future?

The hospital has written the script for your future. Don't like it? Grab your own pen.