The old aphorism is true, leopards don’t change their spots! For these three entities that oppose the new HHS price transparency rules, and for many others to be sure, there is no incentive to hold down healthcare care costs. In …
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Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
1. PRICE PRICE is NOT a product. CARE is the product. Selling access to pricingis anti-free market. Discount brokers” who get paid by selling “savings” are not transparent. 2. VALUE VALUE is established when the buyer and seller agree on …
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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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Healthcare: What to Watch For
“…it is important for employers to be fully aware of what the regulations may impact them to safeguard against inadvertently putting themselves, or their employees, in an untenable situation. It is important for an employer looking to offer an unconventional …
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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Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
The Pillars of the FMMA were created due to the wildly varying definitions of free market and transparency. As this movement grows, many want to utilize the work of the true free market warriors to create new programs, products, and …
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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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