The Impending Death Of Hospitals: Why You Must Plan Your Medical Practice's Survival

Having fallen for the fallacy that there’s profit in market share, hospitals have gorged on acquisitions and on employment and alignment of physicians. Many physicians have been willing participants through practice sales and in the belief that there’s safety in hospital employment. But it’s becoming evident that physician employment leads to losses and that integrated care delivers neither better care nor lower costs. And now, technology is about to moot many of the reasons for a hospital’s existence. How can your practice survive and even thrive in the post-hospital world?