The Company Model of Anesthesia Services: Will Less Money Lead to Jail Time?
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton responded, “Because that’s where the money is.”Ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) owners, often surgeons, seek to obtain a share of anesthesia fees for...
View ArticleProtecting Your Exclusive Contract, Your Practice And Your Profits
In these turbulent times for the business of anesthesia groups, in which the pace of, to use Joseph Schumpeter's term, creative destruction, is quickening, it is more important than ever to take a...
View ArticleThe Company Model of Anesthesia Services: Will Less Money Lead to Jail Time?
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton responded, “Because that’s where the money is.”Ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) owners, often surgeons, seek to obtain a share of anesthesia fees for...
View ArticleGroup to Group: The Impact of Organizational Culture
The average pre-deal predictors of anesthesia group merger or acquisition success are, well, average. Economies of scale, increased opportunities, greater profits! If life, even business life, were...
View ArticleManaging For Success Requires Managing Risk
Opportunity and risk. Risk and opportunity. Janus-like sides of the same coin. Of course, the greater the opportunity, the greater the risk. In a medical practice sense, anesthesiologists are...
View ArticleMedical Directorship Of Anesthesia Services: Are You A Player...Or Are You...
Wow, what a day! You've just left a meeting with the hospital's CEO. Of the fifteen anesthesiologists in your openstaffed department, the CEO wants you to be the new, first medical director of...
View ArticleUpdate on the Company Model and Other Schemes—OIG Issues Advisory Opinion
[Author’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the August 2012 issue of Anesthesiology News.] In a much awaited pronouncement, on June 1, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleUpdate on the Company Model and Other Schemes—OIG Issues Advisory Opinion
In a much awaited pronouncement, on June 1, 2012, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General issued Advisory Opinion 12-06 addressing the propriety of two popular...
View ArticleAre You Making This Mistake Concerning Competition?
“The Competition” These days I hear that term from more and more anesthesia group leaders, and I’m sure that you’re thinking about it more than you’d like. From the Latin root competitionem, its...
View ArticleThe Siren Song of Hospital (Un)Employment
It’s a tough world out there for anesthesiologists. At least, that’s what many anesthesiologists think. Many believe that hospital employment is the panacea: the new “safe” career option. And why...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Anesthesia Group Worth? And Why it Might Not Make Any Difference
[Author’s note: This article is based on a piece I wrote for Anesthesiology News.] “What’s our anesthesia group worth?” I hear that question on a frequent basis. In fact, you’re probably thinking it...
View ArticlePhoenix Project: Reconstructing a Local Group from the Ashes of Its Predecessor
Dateline Phoenix Phoenix. No, not the city in Arizona, but the mythical bird. The one that springs to life from the ashes of its predecessor. Anesthesia groups, like birds, have a life cycle. Birth to...
View ArticleAnesthesia Group Mergers, Acquisitions and (Importantly) Alternatives
It’s come to the point that a good part of my work with anesthesia groups involves surgery: removing an earworm—a catchy tune that continually runs through the group’s mind. In fact, it’s always the...
View ArticleImpending Death of Hospitals: Will Your Anesthesia Practice Survive?
How would you like to know exactly what’s going to happen in the future so that you can prepare for and profit from it? I have a crystal ball. Here, let me share it with you. We’re going to review some...
View ArticleOIG Advisory Opinion Secrets and Strategies
[Author’s Note: This article is based on my presentation at the 2016 Advanced Institute for Anesthesia Practice Management.] The OIG Advisory Opinion (Advisory Opinion) process allows parties of actual...
View ArticleThe Company Model of Anesthesia Services: Will Less Money Lead to Jail Time?
??When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton responded, “Because that’s where the money is.”Ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) owners, often surgeons, seek to obtain a share of anesthesia fees for...
View ArticleThe Company Model of Anesthesia Services: Will Less Money Lead to Jail Time?
??When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton responded, “Because that’s where the money is.”Ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) owners, often surgeons, seek to obtain a share of anesthesia fees for...
View ArticleMedical Directorship Of Anesthesia Services: Are You A Player...Or Are You...
Wow, what a day! You've just left a meeting with the hospital's CEO. Of the fifteen anesthesiologists in your openstaffed department, the CEO wants you to be the new, first medical director of...
View ArticleAnesthesia Mergers and Acquisitions and Post-Termination Obligations: Have...
The Mark F. Weiss Law Firm, Dallas, TX, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CAI pushed the wiring instructions across the table.A few minutes later, I confirmed that close to $10 million was in the account...
View ArticleSwitzerland and the Anesthesia Group Structure
Mark F. Weiss, JD The Mark F. Weiss Law Firm, Dallas, TX, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CAQuick! Who's the president of Switzerland?Anesthesia group leaders seeking to create a larger structure out of...
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