Financial management of healthcare organizations is a highly fraught subject, and has become more so in the past few weeks. How do you run the finances of a big organization when the only measure of the value of your products is the reimbursements you are paid for...
Doesn’t any talk about a “cheaper” future of healthcare mean a huge loss of jobs? A fair question, but the answer is not as simple as you might think. In most communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, if not the largest, and...
(From Physician Executive, September/October 2008) The answer to that question is undergoing a rapid, thorough, and historic shift. The very existence of a group with the hyphenated title “physician-executive” hints at the depth of the change.When people around the...
Are you a white-knuckle flier? My sympathy. Planes are scary and dangerous. But let’s see: In the last 10 years, a passenger has stepped onto a U.S. airline about 7 billion times. How many of those 7 billion times did the passenger...
The other day the San Francisco Chronicle carried an article by their Washington correspondent in which a number of economists speculated that, for the first time, it seems reasonably possible that the United States Government is headed for a financial meltdown of the...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, July 9, 2008)Hospitals need primary care physicians. They should hire physicians, they should buy physician practices, and they should join the retail clinic movement. At the core of any real health care reform, as well as...
