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Peter Lucash

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Peter Lucash

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Peter Lucash is a business consultant and trainer who works to assist medical practices to improve their direction and performance. His focus is on business strategy and business planning, marketing strategy and operations improvement.

ARTICLES BY Peter Lucash

Medical Practices: Get Owner's Agreement in Writing

A signed owner's agreement spells out what happens when new owners enter the scene and existing owners leave, whether due to retirement, disability, disagreement, or death.

The Future of Physician Business Practices

Here are the top 10 considerations for an industry in flux -- and 10 actions to take by 2010.

Employers face 10.5% cost increase

Aon Consulting surveyed leading health plans and projects that health costs for employers will rise 10.5 percent next year.

From CMS: Medicare Quality Demonstration Paying Off

CMS issued a press release reporting that financial incentives for improving the quality of care is paying off. Here is the full text.

Balance

Bringing business principles into a physician practice should be tempered by the primary purpose - the physician and patient time. It's a matter of finding the right balance between the two.

Where Goes Health Reform

Health reform continnues to move forward. Yes, it's scary, but anything different requires a degree of faith.

Coalition Pushes to Cut Admin Costs - Save $50 Billion a year (ok, maybe 25)

A coalition of healthcare organizations, including MGMA, AAFP, AHIMA and others, is working to simplify administrative complexity and costs.

Getting Ready for Reform

A recent McKinsey survey reports that only 30% of healthcare industry executives say that their companies are ready for reform. Regardless of the specifics of the final legislation - o even if there is legislation - it will be a different set of operating rules and customer/patient/payer expectations.

Reforming Day-to-Day Health Care Delivery

Dr. John Kenagy, a surgeon, executive and scholar, argues that the key to health care reform is cost control, and that the key to cost control is the organization of delivery organizations. Here's what he thinks and the job for physicians.

Recycled Ideas with a Dash of New Trash - It's Still Capitation

A Seattle practice has recycled ideas of capitation, no insurance practices, and practice management companies. They tied it up, convinced some VC firms to put up money for what they think is an "innovative" concept, and gotten press. You be the judge.