The Mark F. Weiss Law Firm

08/21/2026

Hospitals pursued volume instead of value, and it’s costing them.
Meanwhile, tech is stripping away core hospital functions.
If the future is post‑hospital, what’s your strategy?

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08/20/2026

By the time you read this, the DOJ should have nearly 500 attorneys and staff assigned to a single division built to find fraud, working alongside the FBI, the IRS, and Postal Inspectors. Healthcare fraud is among the prime targets and data analytics is among their prime tools.

Catching fraudsters is good news for everyone, including you. But using AI to find billing volume that deviates from peer norms is a statistical description, not a clinical one, and nobody on the DOJ’s data science team has any way of knowing why your practice actually looks the way it does.

I lay out what a newly supercharged DOJ means for compliant physicians and medical groups in my newest full post. See the link in the first comment below.

08/19/2026

What if physician burnout isn't about resilience at all? A different look at ownership, autonomy, and incentives.

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What if physician burnout isn’t about resilience at all? A differen...

08/18/2026

Somewhere in Washington, an algorithm is looking at your billing data right now, and it doesn't know the difference between the busiest, most trusted surgeon in your market and a fraud ring running a wound-care mill.

That's not a hypothetical. On August 13, the DOJ's newly formed National Fraud Enforcement Division laid out how it plans to supercharge healthcare fraud enforcement with data analytics, AI, and a cross-disciplinary team built to hunt for statistical outliers.

The stated target is fraudsters. But it’s likely that high-performing, completely legitimate physicians who simply deviate from a “peer group” that was never built with their practice in mind will be caught up in the mess.

I break down what this actually means for your practice in my newest full post. See the link in the first comment below.

08/17/2026

Weak governance stalls decision‑making at the very moment healthcare demands faster, sharper choices. If the pace of change is accelerating, but your leadership structure isn’t, your group is already losing ground.
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08/17/2026

Most of what gets marketed as the solution to physician burnout treats the symptom, not the structure. Meditation apps. Resiliency training. A newly created Chief Wellness Officer with a nice title and no authority over any of it.

None of it answers the actual question: why would a physician who owns nothing ever feel invested in anything beyond their own effort? And why was effort alone ever supposed to be enough to prevent exhaustion?

Here's what the wellness industry misses entirely: renters don't treat a business like their own, no matter how many times leadership calls it a family. The institution feels that too, in eroding engagement, softening quality, and rising turnover. It isn't just a physician wellness problem. It runs in both directions.

I've written about the doom loop this creates, for physicians and for the institutions employing them, in my newest full post. See the link in the first comment below.

08/14/2026

A renter has nothing to do with the title. You can be called a partner, a medical director, a shareholder in a professional corporation that exists on paper. If you hold no real equity, if there's no asset that grows in value because of the work you personally do, and if there's nothing to sell or pass down when you leave, you're renting.

Every year, physician renters are asked to move faster: more RVUs, more patients per day, more quality metrics, more call. And every year they arrive at exactly the same place. Employed. No equity. Further from ownership than when they started.

That's the wheel. Speed without distance.

I've written about what that wheel is actually costing you in my newest full post. See the link in the first comment below.

08/13/2026

For years, the friendly physician model was the preferred workaround to the corporate practice of medicine doctrine.

California appears to be testing its limits.

Watch: https://youtu.be/2yZ3dG4vgr0

08/12/2026

California’s crackdown on the friendly physician model may signal broader risks for MSOs nationwide.

Watch: https://youtu.be/2yZ3dG4vgr0

08/12/2026

Ask anyone who's ever owned rental property a simple question: who takes better care of the house, the owner who lives in it, or the tenant leasing it for a year?

The tenant calls about the leak. He doesn't fix the fence. He doesn't repaint a porch he'll never see again after the lease ends. That's not a character flaw. It's a rational response to the incentives in front of him.

Physicians are running the same experiment, at scale, without recognizing it as an experiment.

I've written before about the rent seekers, the hospitals and investor-owned platforms that employ the overwhelming majority of American physicians. In my newest full post, I'm writing about the other half of that relationship, the physicians who’ve become the renters. See the link in the first comment below.