Hope for Primary Care … from a Payer? A White Paper on the Collaborative Payer Model

May 7th, 2009 admin

by Tom Doerr, MD and Randy Bak, MD, JD What if the health care payer were re-imagined as a service to the primary care doctor – supplying the tools, information and funding primary care physicians needed to meet the call to reform health delivery? The structure of physician payment is considered one of the most problematic aspects of our health care …


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