Christine Lehmann, MA February 11, 2020 Having quick access to a primary care doctor 24/7 is very appealing to Mick Lowderman, 56, who is married with two children, ages 10 and 8. He pays a monthly membership fee to AtlasMD, …
Category: Third-Party Free Practices
Kroger and GoodRx Launch the Kroger Rx Savings Club to Redefine the Customer Experience
The market is rising up in response to the price-distortions of the medical-industrial complex. The Kroger-GoodRx partnership is a huge end-run around the price-skimming cabal of PBMs and their Health Plan co-conspirators. – Robert Nelson, FfHCF “More than 200 million …
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Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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DPC and Self-Insured Employers: Counting the Costs
“In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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DPC and Self-insured Employers: Lifestyle-friendly Care for the 21st Century
http://ushealthmedia.com/dpc-and-self-insured-employers-lifestyle-friendly-care-for-the-21st-century/ In a typical insurance-based practice, meaningful face-to-face time between doctor and patient is somewhere between 5-10 minutes. Interesting, but surprisingly, shorter visits tended to result in more prescriptions being written and less time trying to get to the root …
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Is CMS “DPC” model headed wrong direction?
The RFI goes on to explain the CMS vision of, “direct provider contracting (DPC), through which CMS would directly contract with Medicare providers.” Obviously this interpretation of “DPC” turns the true meaning of Direct Patient Care on its head. https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/cms-dpc-model?e=7be491a5e2
A Brief History of the Free Market Healthcare Movement: A discussion with Jay Kempton & Dr. Keith Smith
by Megan Freedman – Editorial Manager, Free Market Healthcare Solutions magazine These names are, in many ways, synonymous with the current free market movement, and for good reason. These men are the mavericks of healthcare. When Dr. Smith and Mr. Kempton were …
DPC and Self-Insured Employers: A New Paradigm for Primary Care
Imagine you’ve just been named Healthcare Czar of the United States. Your mandate is to achieve highly effective primary care. The road-map to effective primary care includes eliminating barriers between physicians and patients, including bureaucratic inefficiencies, while simultaneously decreasing the over-all …
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