Becker's Healthcare October 11, 2024
The growing influence of nonclinical actors in healthcare has sparked concerns among physicians, as many feel that their autonomy has been significantly eroded over the past few decades.
James Krantz, MD, family medicine physician at Frederick, Md.-based Catoctin Medical Group, joined Becker’s to discuss how the involvement of nonclinical professionals in healthcare has grown to hurt physicians.
Why physicians sought out nonclinical actors
“The main source of erosion of physician autonomy is the entry of businesspeople into medicine, which we physicians facilitated several decades ago,” he said. “In the ’80s, we doctors wanted administrators — in private practice, many of us found we wanted to focus on medical work rather than accounting, so we hired these people to handle...
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