Medical Economics October 1, 2024
Are you burned out on fee-for-service?
As a primary care physician, I am all too familiar with the challenges of modern health care. The increasing administrative burdens, shrinking reimbursement rates and looming threat of physician burnout can feel overwhelming. My journey from a fee-for-service model to direct primary care (DPC) was transformative, offering not just a professional revival but also a renewed connection to the essence of patient care.
When speaking with colleagues, from social workers to physicians and all those caregivers in between, it is clear that also delivers on the quintuple aim described by Dr. Garrison Bliss, the father of DPC: “happier patients, happier doctors, lower costs, better health outcomes.”
Fee-for-service burnout
My medical career began in a...
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