Why to Consider an Independent Primary Care Physician
Independent Primary Care Physicians Patients have been comforted into a costly daze allowing reimbursement policies to govern their decisions in managing their health. Meanwhile, reliant on reimbursement revenue for survival, physicians may continuously reshape care delivery to mirror the ever-shifting values of payers. This period of medicine is drawing quickly to a close. As consumers shoulder the growing burden of healthcare costs, America is waking up to the reality of an apparent oxymoron. With deductibles ballooning to thousands of dollars, most working-age Americans are now insured, self-pay patients. For primary care physicians, in particular, this new reality creates an extremely important for in the road. Consumers hate the old, payer-driven model of primary care. Now that they are footing the bill, they will seek out and buy what...
