by John Leifer | Dec 6, 2013 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
The calamitous launch of the Obamacare web-site has been an embarrassment to the administration, and a rallying cry for Republican opposition to the landmark legislation. Yet, within short-order, even detractors acknowledge that the web-site will be fixed, the...
by John Leifer | Nov 5, 2013 | Healthcare, Outpatient Centers, Physician Ownership, Radiation therapy
Coming soon to a strip mall near you, Shop & Glow, the newest addition to the burgeoning collection of outpatient medical facilities in your market. Shop & Glow offers the latest and greatest in radiation therapy designed to nuke those nasty tumors deep within...
by John Leifer | Sep 27, 2013 | Healthcare
The stock of American doctors may be reaching an all-time high as hospitals across the nation scramble to acquire physician practices in what has become the latest wave of provider consolidation. Yet it remains to be seen whether this trend will produce any real...
by John Leifer | Sep 20, 2013 | Healthcare
Hospitals are responding to the pressures of shrinking reimbursements, an increasingly complex regulatory environment, and the pressing need to acquire expensive information technology by consolidating at a pace not seen in years. Even institutions that are not...
by John Leifer | Sep 13, 2013 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform
When my friends ask me to translate the 2,000+ pages of legislation constituting the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, into a sound-byte, I stammer and stutter looking for where to begin. In the end, I tell them about the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. The good...
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