Business

Catholic Hospital Roll-up

Ascension, based in St. Louis, is the nation’s largest Catholic health system with $15 billion in revenue. In February, Ascension formed Ascension Health Care Network, a first-of-its kind joint venture with private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners of Menlo Park, Calif., to buy Catholic health systems and hospitals that might otherwise sell to for-profit or other non-Catholic entities. Tersigni …

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University of Miami Doctors Get Protection From Lawsuits

In a long-sought move, the University of Miami won a legislative victory Wednesday when Florida lawmakers agreed to extend state lawsuit protection to university doctors working in public hospitals. The measure passed as part of a one-two-three punch the Republican-led Legislature threw at trial lawyers. Another bill makes it tougher to sue automobile manufacturers. A third …

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From Scrubs to a Suit

Over the years I have had the pleasure of getting to know quite a few physicians with a talent and interest in business. I have noticed in that same period of time, an increasing number of physicians wanting to jettison their clinical life for the ranks of the proverbial technology start-up, venture capital, media or …

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MD to MBA

In part 1 of this post I shared a few thoughts on making the jump from clinician to the business world. In this post I’ll offer some perspective as to whether an MBA is worthwhile for the physician. Similar to medical school, much of your business learning will occur on the job, not in the …

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Putting a Face to the Practice

Far too often when a physician practice (hospitals included) think of marketing, the immediate reaction is to get someone to “take care of that.” This often leads to a marketing program, social media included, that don’t reflect the true voice and character of the clinicians who are the ones caring for the patients. This is …

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Rule to Allow Access to Medicare Data on Providers

The following article comes from ModernHealthcare.com and covers a very controversial and important topic for providers. Certainly the intentions are good and there is plausible benefit from this move. However, there is ample room for misuse and improper interpretation of the data that could create significant problems for providers. We’re interested to get feedback from providers on …

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