Ken Terry is a veteran health care journalist and author who has written extensively on health care reform, physician leadership, and the structural causes of America’s affordability crisis. He is the author of three books on health care reform, including Beyond Medicare For All: Cracking The Code of The Healthcare Affordability Crisis, published by the American Association for Physician Leadership with a foreword by health care consultant and thought leader David W. Johnson.
Terry’s work focuses on practical, physician-led approaches to improving the U.S. health care system, with particular attention to affordability, care delivery, and policy reform. His latest book is available through Amazon and the American Association for Physician Leadership.
More information about his work is available at Physician-Led Reform, and professional updates are available on LinkedIn.
Primary care physicians already have a lot of competition from retail clinics, urgent care clinics and telehealth services that cater to consumers. Now they’re facing a new threat from the “virtual primary care plans” that insurance companies have launched recently. These are health plans that prioritize virtual visits with doctors hired by telehealth services over in-person visits to primary care doctors.
For years, some insurance companies have been offering online urgent …
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PCPs could counter virtual plans by increasing telehealth visits
Primary care is in trouble again. Last summer, as government assistance programs expired or wound down, primary care practices across the country were struggling to stay afloat because of lost business. By October, patient visits had rebounded in most specialties. But by mid-November, as COVID-19 surged everywhere, primary care physicians reported that they faced critical staffing shortages and limited resources, Read more…
Primary care faces a very difficult winter
A recent report by Merritt Hawkins, the physician recruiting firm, includes two key revelations about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on physicians: Merritt Hawkins’ searches on behalf of prospective employers have dropped by 30 percent since March 31, and up to 35 percent of practices in some markets might soon close because of their unsustainable financial losses.
As of late May, visits to physicians—both in-person and …
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Physicians of America, unite! You don’t have to work for hospitals.
