8. The RNC can’t field a viable candidate to overturn ObamaCare. To oust the incumbent, the Republican Party will have to put forward someone more appealing than the current candidates. A recent Bloomberg News poll showed Hermain Cain at 20 percent, Ron Paul at 19 percent, Mitt Romney at 18 percent and Newt Gingrich at 17 percent — and 60 percent of respondents say they could still be persuaded to back someone other than their top choice.
7. Fear. If changes resulting from healthcare reform, downward pressures on reimbursement, declining case volume and the erosion in distributions don’t scare you, you truly are in the 1 percent.
6. Their son just got accepted to Harvard, the spouse bought a new luxury car, their investments are yielding %#&! — and they just turned 50. Many older physicians had retirement in their sights — until reimbursements started to drop and their distributions suffered as a result. If your physicians seem tetchy when you hand out distribution checks, they may be thinking of the mounting pressure on their bank accounts.
5. They just got back from an orthopedic convention, and they want new toys now. Every administrator has handled a physician coming back from a convention with a laundry list of requests. Every time you turn your back, it seems that a sales rep sneaks in and demos a toy that — of course — costs $3,000 more than the one you’re using.
4. They think their volumes are “carrying” or “subsidizing” every other physician’s distributions.
3. Their distributions have decreased. With declining case volume and pressure on reimbursements, your physicians may be looking at their distribution checks and thinking, “… Is that all?”
2. The guy selling units in the ASC “over-sold” and management “under-delivered.” No one told your physicians that ASC ownership would be this hard.
1. Lack of ongoing transparent communications from board or management. It may be that you haven’t held a board meeting in months — or it may be that you’ve held three, and your physicians haven’t shown up. Either way, you can bet that at the top of the list of concerns is, “What are you doing with my money?”
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