Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business. The newspaper as middleman has been put to bed for the last time.
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Direct contracting can be used as a strategy to deflect the negotiating pressure of payors, especially down-stream middlemen such as IPAs and risk bearing medical groups.
: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons are dead?
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business.
Ebay and Craigslist have disintermediated the classified section in the newspaper, which used to be the largest moneymaker in that business. The newspaper as middleman has been put to bed for the last time.
This post is the second in a series on direct contracting by physicians and medical groups. See Direct Contracting By Physicians and Medical Groups for the first post in the series. Before we get too deep into the subject, let’s ask an epistemological question: If you saw one dead raccoon, does that mean that all raccoons […]
In healthcare, middlemen abound. Hospital systems are middlemen for their controlled/employed physicians.
Special Announcement on AB 72 for California Physicians or Anyone Afraid This Crazy Idea Will Spread
Would any payor pay a physician or medical group more than Medicare plus 25% if they didn’t have to? Would any payor with the ability to control what its “average” contract rate is, reduce its “average” if that’s all it has to pay to an out-of-network physician or medical group? California’s law known as “AB […]