Business Advisor

You set gross charges at two times Medicare rates; You sign every contract; You let one highly respected but controversial physician run the business; You encourage your productive surgeons to leave and build their own facility; You ignore the physician schedulers; Your administrator is tied to the most important surgeon and runs the facility as a private fiefdom; You screen cases to implant expensive non-reimbursed grafts, screws and implants in Medicare patients; You pay retail for all supplies and buy only new equipment; You let cash and checks go through as many hands as possible on the way to the bank; You guarantee 40 hours a week and open every room with a 7:30 a.m. case; One thing we've learned; Anesthesia; Buy; Establish; Fully; GPO; Great; Join; Labor; Listen; Make; Medicare; Refurbished; Remember; SKUs; Surgery; Talk; Visit; Why? Labor; Work; achieve; adage; adding; adequate; administrator; agreement; ambulatory; apply; attract; attracting; autonomously; average; board; break; bring; build; building; business; business-like; buy; carve; cases; cash; catalyst; center; centers; challenging; charge; charging; cheat; checks; clerk; clinical; clinicians; collects; communicates; companies; competitive; concerned; concerns; contract; contracted; contributes; controls; controversial; cosmetic; cost; country's; create; criteria; critical; dates; dealings; debt; deposit; develop; development; disappears; disenfranchised; due; early; easier; easy; economic; empty; encourage; end; environment; equipment; exceptions; expensive; expiration; explain; facilities; facility; facility's; fact; fashion; financial; fixed; flaws; frequency; front; full; give; good; greatest; gross; group; guarantee; half; hands; high-cost; high-quality; higher; highly; hold; hours; idle; ignore; implant; important; insurance; invite; issues; job; keeping; kids; laparoscopic; leading; leave; leaving; letting; lineup; local; lock; lower; lower-profile; mail; maintain; make; marketing; markets; matter; members; met; million; models; money; monitor; multiple; needed; negotiate; network; no-nepotism; non-reimbursed; notice; notify; offer; offers; open; opening; opens; operate; operating; out-of-pocket; outcomes; ownership; paid; partnership; pay; payers; paying; penile; people; percent; person; physician; physicians; power; prevent; private; productive; profitable; protocols; providers; providing; purchase; purchasing; put; reach; realize; reason; reconciliation; reduce; reimburses; reliance; remain; remedy; repayment; represent; requires; respect; respected; retail; review; room; run; running; runs; sap; scare; scheduler; schedulers; screen; screws; search; seek; serve; set; share; shareholders; sheet; sign; simple; sitting; solutions; sooner; sound; specialty; stability; staffed; staffing; start; stimulator; strength; strong; substantial; supplies; support; surgeon; surgery; surgical; surprise; temptation; thing; thought; tied; tight; time; today's; total; touches; trials; true; trusted; turning; unable; uncommon; unwilling; utilizers; viability; warranty; week