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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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DPC and Self-insured Employers: A Benefits Trifecta
By contracting with a Direct Primary Care practice and re-routing subsequent encounters away from the more expensive insurance-based protocols, Self-insured employers can utilize creative plan designs to cut costs and improve employee satisfaction. The savings can be substantial even after …
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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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Deductibles and HSA’s: The Devil (and the truth) is in the Details | LinkedIn
AKA…HSA’s: The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected Access to healthcare is often defined by how much of another person’s money is used to subsidize it; rather than focusing on reducing the real price or ways to be more efficient! …
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How to Control Healthcare Costs: Know Why They are High
by Robert Nelson, MD The formula for excessive Healthcare spending: Most healthcare $$ resources tied up in premiums/billing cycle + lack of price transparency + Patients chasing benefits + Doctors chasing billing codes + No incentives to care about …
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The Change We Seek We Must Create
The reach and effectiveness of healthcare innovation and change is ultimately staked to how we pay for healthcare in aggregate. Building economic paradigms with more attractive price-value relationships will be the conduit through which change will emerge. 1.Employer education & …
Over-reliance on Health Insurance Can be Hazardous to Your Health: A Case for DPC
By Robert Nelson, MD Despite its own admission that Flu Vaccine is, at best, only 40 – 60% effective at reducing risk of Flu-like illness, the CDC repeatedly lists receiving the Flu vaccine as “step one” in prevention. This recommendation also acknowledges the …
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