Denver Medical Study Group

Independent Physician Practices: Sell, Consolidate, or Stay Put? With more than 40 years of working in the healthcare industry, I have seen health systems buy practices and divest of them over two or three cycles. Private equity firms come in and consolidation happens. This is often touted as the end of the private practice. Currently, these transactions seem to be even more intense due to the high cost of technology, staffing and other general operating costs. There are also concerns…

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BY PAUL J. SCHULZ March 22, 2019 Health care reform continues to reshape the landscape of how critical access hospitals will be paid in the future. Value-based reimbursement continues to expand, and forward-thinking critical access hospitals are acting now to prepare their facilities to receive maximum reimbursement once changes are implemented. Changes come with new challenges. One of the challenges we are striving to meet is the opportunity to leverage facility system data in combination with our assessment process to…

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