This episode discusses the current shift happening in healthcare, so that you can make more informed decisions about choosing the best provider for your personal health needs.
The current state of the American healthcare system is broken.
We’re currently working with a system where 65% of all healthcare dollars are spent on the sickest 10% of the population.
Let me say that again… 65% of the health insurance premiums and Medicare taxes you pay every month, go towards healthcare spending for the sickest 10% of Americans.
Those insurance premiums and deductibles continue to increase at unprecedented rates, yet what healthcare providers get reimbursed by insurance companies continues to decrease.
This is resulting in unrealistic productivity standards for healthcare providers, requiring them to see more and more patients in less and less time… which inevitably causes a decrease in the quality of care the other 90% of the non-sickest Americans receive, as well as an extremely high rate of burnout for healthcare providers.
For these reasons an increasing number of providers have sought a better method of delivering a higher quality, more personable, and overall better healthcare experience for both the patient and the provider. This movement for primary care providers has been referred to as Direct Primary Care.
My next guest is a nurse practitioner who has recently opened her own direct primary care office in an attempt to deliver healthcare services the way she feels is in the best interest of her patients and herself as a provider.
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