Managed Healthcare Executive March 20, 2023
This part of the month’s cover story series features Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D., M.P.H., executive director of the Catalyst for Payment Reform, who has the provocative suggestion of flipping physician payment so primary care physicians are paid more, not less, than specialists. “We spend so much more on specialists than we do on primary care. While a specialist can help people who are already ill, primary care doctors can help people from becoming ill,” she says.
Despite all the regulation, entrenched interests and bureaucratic entanglements, healthcare remains one of the more dynamic sectors of the American economy.
The activity spring partly from altruism: a desire to heal and help. There’s also an abundance of resources — and not just a little...