Medical Practice Buy-In
A medical practice buy-in is generally a great opportunity, but physicians must protect themselves when they take this step.
A medical practice buy-in is generally a great opportunity, but physicians must protect themselves when they take this step.
The Manual of Policies and Procedures for Direct Primary Care may be all you need to get back to practicing medicine by really connecting with your patients.
Physicians get to spend most of their time healing patients in direct patient care practices, rather than fighting insurance companies to get paid.
New contracting paradigms are creating alliances between physicians and payers on one side, squared off against hospitals on the other side.
Medicare overpayments to physicians must be repaid within 60 days. I explain exactly what is required, and answer common questions about this rule.
It’s time that we recognize that the problem with American healthcare isn’t the physicians, it’s the system that doesn’t allow our physicians to do what they’ve been trained so well to do.
Filing the final tax returns is not enough when officially closing a medical practice. Your attorney must also file documents with the Department of State.
Regulators tend to let messenger model IPAs alone because they’re utterly toothless. If the IPA is negotiating with payors, it isn’t a messenger model IPA.
There are several low or no cost strategies that provide a corporate veil for physicians for significant asset protection.
The dangers of a messenger model IPA were demonstrated as the FTC settled charges with a 600-physician IPA over its use of a “messenger model”.
On May 21, the OIG posted an Advisory Opinion that specifically allowed a hospital to compensate physicians for on-call services to uninsured patients.