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S1 Ep175: Most practices cut the wrong thing first, with Shawntea Gordon of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting
Practice costs are climbing on every line at once: staffing, medical supplies and a technology stack that has grown at some organizations from two or three main systems to as many as 15. Reimbursement has not moved with any of it, and when the math gets that tight the reflex is to start cutting.
Physicians Practice Managing Editor Keith Reynolds sat down with Shawntea Gordon, CEO of Atlas & Perpetua Healthcare Consulting, to explain why that reflex is where most practices go wrong. A cut made without data behind it is a guess, Gordon argues, and the wrong guess costs more than it saves. She…
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