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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP295: Surprising Insights About Measuring Primary Care Performance, With Rebecca Etz, PhD
Description: PCPs (primary care providers) are really important to population health. Primary care is the foundation of any well-functioning health system, I am sure many listening to this podcast know well. For the Triple Aim to happen, patients really need access to robust primary care. This has been affirmed by almost anyone who looks into it. And yet, in this country, our system sort of anemically supports our primary care colleagues. As a general statement, poking and prodding and procedures are compensated at a far higher rate than anything requiring cognitive services. What a PCP or a pediatrician...