http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-molina-20181214-story.html
Resolving the conflict between the company and its founding family seems to be far off. Of the company’s refusal to improve contract terms for the clinics, Mario Molina says: “It appears to be not so much a business decision, but a spiteful, personal decision. They’re effectively trying to drive us out of business.”
Did anyone read the entire article? There are some serious allegations in the article that lead the Molina the company to settle for an undisclosed amount. Obviously the allegations were credible enough to settle.
Some real dumb-dumbs working at Molina and now GSM....that’s all I can say. Geez, glad I left many years ago
What seems to be missing in any of these posts is the irony that Dr. M claims the issues between GSM and MHI are personal yet you can feel his anger and personal attacks in this article. It really says a lot about his lack of business acumen if he thought this kind of tactic would bring MHI to the negotiating table. While he is right that it seems personal, it’s actually personal on his part as he lashes out in Trumponian zeal. And without missing a beat, he appears all to happy to victimize Ms Hiley, (which anyone who ever came in contact with her would find laughable given her behavior) by sharing details of her case with the press. So undignified and shameful of him. Dr. M, it’s time for some serious self reflection and understanding of facts: you were not broadsided by your firing as you claim — it was predictable as the losses continued to mount. You failed to lead, particularly by not replacing your brother with a real CFO, and not stopping your family from mixing MHI business with personal business. Nepotism ruled your tenure with unqualified overpaid people in key jobs. You surrounded yourself with yes men/women who fed your ego and spent their time coining phrases like Caid and Project Nickel. You were fired because of you, not because of some phony conspiracy between the board and Mr. Barlow or because you bad mouthed Donald Trump. Please, have some dignity and grace.
Agree with the last post. Lots of kool aid drinking at both Molina and GSM.
Drink up boys and girls- cause the kool-aid will become sugar free soon.....s---as!
GSM is done. That place is sunk without a Molina contract. Soon there will be an announcement that those clinics will close. That is my prediction. Molina is over, period. If you don’t hear it’s death rattle, you’re deaf.
Cmon let’s face it, putting the incompetent Molinas in charge of a business that people rely upon for care, to make a living, or profits to continue is like putting Donald Trump in charge of Twitter etiquette or Hillary Clinton in charge of IT/email Security. Shazam!!!!!
So much hate going on. So sad. Count your blessings as tomorrow is not promised.
GSM isn’t viable in part because a bunch of feckless toadies of the Molina cult are over there doing exactly what they did at MHI - bury the place. Instead of hiring experts to run those clinics, he brought on a bunch of yes-men/women to curtsey and bow to his ego. In reading his know it all posts on social media, no wonder he has no time to run his business. Trump 2.0 and it’s sad to see. MHI is not to blame for GSM woes nor is that contract out of line wit other IPA agreements. If your unhappy at MHI and think GSM is all that, by all means GO!
You guys are all whacked out on kool aid! You would be better off employed at GSM at this point
Like you have any insights into Mr. Barlow and board deliberations. Stick to what you know which isn’t much of anything with value if you want to keep crying a river for those Molina buffoons. From reading this article, Dr. M is having yet another Trumponian outburst which he’s so famous for — delusional, angry, and full of lies. It reminds me of a metaphor I once heard about a cornered rat — how a rat when cornered by a cat will snarl, hiss, show its teeth/claws, and fight for its life. Only this time Dr. M is a house mouse with multiple self inflicted wounds trying to convince itself it can fight its way out of a corner against a pack of cats by trying to convince the cats the neighborhood can’t function without the mouse. GSM will go under, not because of Molina Healthcare, but rather because it’s ineffective and inexperienced leadership can’t run a business. Patients will be just fine and probably better off.
I’m sure Dr. M gave a damn you’re on his side and your restroom exit strategy. If that means your leaving via the toilet, good riddance. Go join that uber id--t “CEO” over at golden shore that used to be our marketing guru who coined that stupid name “project nickel” — luckily JZ showed him the door so he could go help drive golden shore under. Stop playing like Dr. M is a victim. He’s a bad business man and no leadership quality at all. Call it what it is and look at the track record of failure. Use your toilet strategy and get out sooner rather than later so the rest of us can get on with making MHI even stronger.
Amir Desai is the culprit - he is taking a sweet revenge from the past when he was fired for laying off IT employees to outsource work to Cognizant firm.
Why does everyone miss the #Metoo reference? Jeff Barlow was sued for allowing s-xual harassment...outside investigation confirmed bad atmosphere in Legal. The Board did nothing and fired Dr. Mario instead!
I let Dr M know I’m on his side.....he’s getting another bad deal out of the former company written in his name. I let him know my restroom exit strategy and he thanked me for my explosive exit.
Someone is just trying to stir up drama. There are a lot of golden shore and former molina employees lurking on this board, trying to pull everyone down.
Reposting this from the other thread regarding the LA Times article because it’s a good comment...
I know for a fact that the areas of risk Molina gave GSMG are unheard of. There is no other contract with an IPA that has the risk that GSMG does. Not even with Molina. For those that are familiar with the industry, outside of Molina, when have you ever heard of an IPA having facility risk or cancer d--g risk? Never, unless the IPA was full risk, which GS is not. Whats really sad are the Molina members and employees. Members are going to stay with their established PCP and leave Molina and already are switching. Thankfully this is California and they have a choice in their Health Plans. So when the members decrease, the need for job slots do also.
We know. This was already posted here over a week ago. There’s already a thread of arguing over this. Do we need to do this all over again?