Comments on: Are hospitalists financially viable? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88053 Anonymous Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88053 The hospitals are screwed. They depend upon BCBS and the commercial payers to make up for the losses they incur with Medicaid and many of the Medicare patients. At the same time they're bound by incredible layers of regulation that require armies of administrators. <br/><br/>As they are slowly strangled by a sinking economy and CMS cost cutting measures, they'll be forced to cut back or stop subsidizing their primary care and hospitalist practices.<br/><br/>One possible outcome will be the feds nationalizing hospital systems that are too important to fail. Happy will become an employee of a VA like federal hospital system. The hospitals are screwed. They depend upon BCBS and the commercial payers to make up for the losses they incur with Medicaid and many of the Medicare patients. At the same time they’re bound by incredible layers of regulation that require armies of administrators.

As they are slowly strangled by a sinking economy and CMS cost cutting measures, they’ll be forced to cut back or stop subsidizing their primary care and hospitalist practices.

One possible outcome will be the feds nationalizing hospital systems that are too important to fail. Happy will become an employee of a VA like federal hospital system.

]]> By: The Happy Hospitalisthttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88046 The Happy Hospitalist Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88046 <a HREF="http://thehappyhospitalist.blogspot.com/2008/11/hospitalist-medicine.html" REL="nofollow">The Answer Is Yes</a> The Answer Is Yes

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88044 Anonymous Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/are-hospitalists-financially-viable.html#comment-88044 No different then hospitals owning primary care practices. They are loss leaders also. So when is the financial bubble going to pop on hospitals supporting fp physicians going to pop. You pcp's don't look so hot in green. No different then hospitals owning primary care practices. They are loss leaders also. So when is the financial bubble going to pop on hospitals supporting fp physicians going to pop. You pcp’s don’t look so hot in green.

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