Harvard Business Review April 2, 2020
Editor’s Note (4/2): An earlier version of this article and its title stated that Atrius Health was furloughing doctors and nurses. They are not. They are furloughing administrative and medical staff. Doctors have been redeployed. Atrius Health is withholding a percentage of salaries from the higher paid half of its employees, including doctors. We apologize for the error.
I reacted with surprise the other day when Atrius Health, the largest multi-specialty practice group in Massachusetts, and my HMO provider under Medicare Advantage, announced major furloughs of many medical staff members, partial salary withholds for doctors, and a shutdown of a number of its primary care and multi-specialty locations. From a public health perspective, cutbacks and disruptions at an HMO...
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