YB MANAGEMENT

Less than two years later, I was named President and CEO of local network of non profit hospitals. While I didn't know it, I was hired to be a bit of a yes man, put a good PR face on the organization and to not be a threat to any of the hospital adminstrators. Over the next several years I got the equivelant of a Ph.D. in governance and organizational behavior, physician relations, fraud and abuse and anti-trust law and government affairs all the while engaging in hospital managed care contracting, developing and operating a home nursing, DME and IV therapy venture, negotiating and executing multiple joint purchasing agreements and adding new member hospitals. We took the plunge and attempted to transition the loose confederation of hospitals into an integrated delivery system. When we failed and the network member hospitals began to divorce, we repurposed the organization by unlocking a primary care IPA from a local HMO. We developed an MSO and executed a management agreement to..