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Old 03-10-2012, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by blueash View Post
You hire doctors who are willing to work within a lower paying model in exchange for other considerations (life style, stress reduction) as there is no way they will be paid as well as a successful fee for service practice. Then you be sure they have competant staff and a work environment that gives them the tools to succeed .. whether that is rapid access to consultants or a working microscope. You do not give them stock or a percentage of the profit as that incentivizes (at least subconsciously) keeping cost down for the wrong reason. You do not have an in office Xray or MRI or exercise lab or bone density machine. Thus you have lowered the cost of running and equiping the office to the point where you can pay the doctor to be a doctor and not a lab and test ordering machine. This system will work for patients who do not expect that medicine is a one stop shop where the doctor exists to order every test that Dr. Oz recommends. The people who might be very upset about this are all the doctors who have signed expensive leases for office space in TV and now find out that their landlord is going to open a competing office. Hmm
So true about patients expecting the dr. to order every test that Dr. Oz recommends. (If they had to pay for it themselves or had even a $5 co-pay they'd think twice about such expectations.)

And as for competing with dr. practices who signed expensive leases in TV....once again, competition and the free marketplace are a good thing for incentivizing lower fees and more accommodating service....and office hours that aren't just 9-5, M-F!!!

This model also should reduce the number of non-urgent E.R. visits, if the patient can actually get in to see their primary doctor at their office.