Check out this article. Here was the interviewee:
Ramin Rafie, MD, a strategic adviser and clinical consultant based in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, joined Becker’s ASC Review to discuss how loss of physician autonomy is affecting the industry.
And what does he say?
With the ever-changing nature of healthcare, it’s also very difficult for a physician to open up their own practice. If you want to participate in Medicare, you have to be in a health system. That’s why these doctors open up their own cash-based practices doing direct primary care — so they go out of the insurance-based system.
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I think making groups of a manageable size and having physicians be in charge of meetings and teams. Insurance has way too much power, and part of that is because of Medicare. They pass these laws and don’t even think about the physicians’ point of view. The doctor’s voice gets swept under the rug.
So there it is. Physicians in charge. And..
DIRECT PRIMARY CARE