title: 10 outsourcing myths that raise your risk.
abstract: Outsourcing clinical services is a strategy that many hospitals are using today to expand into new practice areas, save costs, and reduce administrative hassles. Hospitals too often enter such arrangements with outsourcing companies without being fully aware of the details that need to be addressed to minimize the hospital's risk. By too readily accepting common myths regarding how the arrangements should be structured, hospitals often are deterred from negotiating important contract provisions that would serve their best interests.
authors.affiliation: Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, Nashville, TN, USA. bobby.guy@wallerlaw.com
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Guy
authors.forename: J Reginald
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D003164:Competitive Bidding; D032982:Contracts / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009229:Mythology; D017008:Negotiating; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000191:economics*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States