Becker's Healthcare December 9, 2024
Patsy Newitt

As 2024 unfolds, physicians across specialties face unprecedented challenges, many of which center on the financial and administrative pressures stemming from reimbursement cuts.

Four physician leaders joined Becker’s to share their perspectives on how these issues impact their practices and what this means for the future of medicine.

Editor’s note: Responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.

Quentin Durward, MD. Neurosurgeon at the Center for Neurosciences, Orthopaedics, & Spine (Dakota Dunes, S.D.): The biggest obstacle to physicians in practice in 2024 is the ratcheting down of insurance payment for physician services by all the payers in the face of progressive and uncontrollable practice costs. More and more physicians in my specialty of neurosurgery are being driven out...

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