Becker's Healthcare September 9, 2024
As healthcare consolidation persists and physicians are increasingly pushed toward employed models, physicians and their patients are forced to manage the fallout of these industry shifts.
1. Physician autonomy. The longevity of independent physicians and the state of physician autonomy hangs in uncertainty amid the growing consolidation in healthcare.
“I believe the biggest threat to physicians is the progressive loss of autonomy such that they are not making the decisions for the patients, but those decisions are made for reasons and by people for other than the patient’s benefit,” Cary Passik, MD, and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., told Becker’s.
Physicians are often driven to employment by a need for more...
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