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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: Healthcare
Description: • We’re seeing huge changes in healthcare.
•  About 25% of patients used telehealth last year, far exceeding the 5% who accessed care this way before the pandemic.
• Pharmacies with physicians present (like pet stores with vets present)
• Physicians in private practice greatly reduced.
• The share of doctors who worked in practices wholly owned by physicians fell from 60.1% to 46.7% from 2012 to 2022.
• More people seeing nurse practitioners
• From 2016 to 2021, the number of primary care physicians billing Medicare declined each year, from 142,000 physicians in 2016 to 135,000 physicians in 2021.Â
• Physicians tell me that the paperwork, reimbursement bureaucracy, and corporate demands are terrible. Example: 5-8 minutes allowed for patient questions duri...