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The financial sustainability of the practice model described here is entirely dependent on revenue/office visit - i.e., negotiated fee schedules with private insurers, applicability of facility fees, percentage of Medicare/Medicaid patients, amount of indigent care, etc. Physicians in solo, small, rural or inner city practices, already just getting by on razor thin margins, cannot churn patients through fast enough to c...
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We commend Sinsky and Bodenheimer for their article in the July/August 2019 issue of Annals of Family Medicine on powering up the primary care team with in-room support to "maximally redistribute team functions."(p367) We agree that "The higher the skill level of the CTC [care team coordinator], the more responsibilities are shared. Ideally, an extended care team of additional colocated health professionals, such...
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