They need a large support staff including attorneys and accountants. Their managers and owners are accustomed to an elaborate lifestyle and it is important that EPs are productive so that the CMG administration can be supported in the lifestyle to which they re accustomed. This takes a lot of money to maintain. There is no good reason why the EP should have access to all the very complicated financial data, especially how much is billed and collected in their name. CMG administrators are absolutely right when they say of the work bee physicians, They don t need to see the numbers.
Patients have some nerve complaining about long waits.
Next time, maybe they won t be so careless and end up in the ED in the first place. They think their time is more important than the CMG s money. We should respect the ABEM certified physician leaders who were smart enough not to waste valuable time finishing any residency. It is our duty to follow the ACEP Emergency Physician Rights and Responsibilities policy, which appropriately discourages EPs from attempting to acquire their hospital ED contract. A founder of both a CMG and a walk-in clinic chain is right on when he suggests that local control can t possibly compete with the CMG bureaucracy.