On Merging Medical Practices

By David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP

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Merging Medical Practices

There are only three possibilities if you want to go into practice for yourself; buy a practice; franchise a business, or start one. However, if you have an existing practice, merging it to form a larger entity can be a satisfying experience. The pace of practice mergers is accelerating, but it is often difficult to make an informed judgment about synergy. Mergers make sense only if the resulting value is more than additive to the original; not duplicative.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Unfortunately, far too many mergers fail to create, or actually destroy existing value. So, look for complimentary processes, personalities and ideas. In a merger of two existing practices, there is no substitute for personal interaction between employees and physician-management. This creates cross-pollination and new ideas in everything from service-lines and the patient production process, to marketing and finance, and to proprietary and intellectual rights. Most importantly, it allows
diversity of ideas.

And so, the following are questions to consider when contemplating a medical practice
merger:


 What are the risks of this transaction and how are they mitigated?
 Will talented employees be retained on both sides and can an exodus be
prevented?
 Are the specific liabilities of each practice known? Remember, the farther outside
your area of specialty or expertise, the greater the risk of being wrong.
 Will I appraise each practice independently, and correctly?
 Where will employee allegiance rest?
 What is the name, and logo, of the new entity? Who will be the CEO?

Vertical Integration: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2023/04/14/integration-as-a-competitive-strategy-in-healthcare-reform/

More: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/06/19/healthcare-mergers-acquisitions-2021-in-review/

COMMENTS APPRECIATED

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On Merging Medical Practices

By David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP

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SPONSOR: http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

Merging Medical Practices

There are only three possibilities if you want to go into practice for yourself; buy a practice; franchise a business, or start one. However, if you have an existing practice, merging it to form a larger entity can be a satisfying experience. The pace of practice mergers is accelerating, but it is often difficult to make an informed judgment about synergy. Mergers make sense only if the resulting value is more than additive to the original; not duplicative.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Unfortunately, far too many mergers fail to create, or actually destroy existing value. So, look for complimentary processes, personalities and ideas. In a merger of two existing practices, there is no substitute for personal interaction between employees and physician-management. This creates cross-pollination and new ideas in everything from service-lines and the patient production process, to marketing and finance, and to proprietary and intellectual rights. Most importantly, it allows
diversity of ideas.

And so, the following are questions to consider when contemplating a medical practice
merger:


 What are the risks of this transaction and how are they mitigated?
 Will talented employees be retained on both sides and can an exodus be
prevented?
 Are the specific liabilities of each practice known? Remember, the farther outside
your area of specialty or expertise, the greater the risk of being wrong.
 Will I appraise each practice independently, and correctly?
 Where will employee allegiance rest?
 What is the name, and logo, of the new entity? Who will be the CEO?

Vertical Integration: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2023/04/14/integration-as-a-competitive-strategy-in-healthcare-reform/

More: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/06/19/healthcare-mergers-acquisitions-2021-in-review/

COMMENTS APPRECIATED

Thank You

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