Search for the lynchpins of medical reform

Search for the lynchpins of medical reform

Physicians are still hot commodities and this has been shown with the way institutions maintain them despite the challenges in medical reform. The biggest trend in healthcare nowadays is physician management groups purchasing doctors specializing in pediatrics, internal and general medicine. An investment banker states that the reason companies and their investors gobble up these primary care doctors is because they are believed to be the linchpin of medical reform and culture.

A demand for these primary care physicians will surely grow as the nation sees less and less on the supply bucket of available doctors. Now, preventive measures are espoused to cut the cost of medical needs such as reducing tests, medicines and appointments to doctors due to the rise of managed care methods that use primary health care specialists as the leaders in this trend. Private sectors and both the state and federal government rely on companies specializing in managed care to minimize health care bills.

Hospitals and health maintenance groups network health care services to consumers and their employers as managed care companies market the professional expertise of their managed physicians. The last few years has kept the rise of doctor management firms steadily as when it first started back in the 1980s. Among the professional investors who banked in doctor management firms are medical doctors, health insurance companies and risk-taking capitalists. Publicly listed care management firms see their prices on a consistent rise whereas medical stocks have been showing signs of letting down.

Physicians recognize the vast number of benefits they can derive when they join one of these companies. Several hundred thousand bucks gets the doctors to sign up and join the team. They are also entitled to a contract that guarantees them at least $100,000 as an annual income often for up to thirty years and an assurance that the erratic health care reform programs would not give them financial setbacks. Physicians under care management receive salaries as commendable as those who do not operate with care managers.

Management companies take on even the taxing roles of hiring new staff, marketing to clients, billing, check writing, leasing of office space and copier machines as well as malpractice insurance needs and other matters. Making sure doctors work closer to eight hours per day and shift away from the around the clock scheme of work is also one of the duties of the care management firms. Some speculate that the bottom line's need to be bolstered might shoert change the patients in need of adequate health care.

Doctors have to practice medicine dedicatedly eve under the supervision of their managers who are tasked to ensure good quality while minimizing operation costs. Many doctors clearly can't relish the idea of having a boss that will be making sure they don't exceed budgets. But analysts say only time will tell if the management companies can keep their promise that doctors won't see patients in assembly line fashion or otherwise skimp on treatment and that profits won't compromise quality of care.

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