Practice Management

"You've got to think of your hospital as a startup and your first doctors as your first employees or your partners," Mark Cuban said during a recent interview on the Healthcare Bridge podcast.

One is cutting headcount and telling employees that the workforce will shrink. The other is investing in skills, certifications and manager training while insisting that its future is "people-led, tech-powered."

A beneficiary said he has had trouble collecting all of the benefits that should be coming from the converted policy.

For employers, clarity does not guarantee lower costs. But it does guarantee something just as important: the ability to see what is really happening, and to negotiate from a position grounded in reality.

Clients said the firm committed breach of contract and fiduciary duty in connection with their investments.

These layoffs come after Walgreens had already begun cutting jobs and closing stores under private equity ownership.