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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP270: COVID-19—How to Save Primary Care Practices With the Marshall Plan for Prospective Payment Models, With Dave Chase, Cofounder and CEO of Health Rosetta
Description: Let's talk today specifically about primary care physicians (PCPs) and family medicine doctors. Data was reported in USA Today, saying that an estimated 60,000 family practices will close and 800,000 of their employees will lose their jobs by the end of June. It's hard for any practice to just snap its fingers and transfer patients over to telemedicine regardless of the reimbursement rate and/or how many payers are actually paying any reimbursement for telemedicine or remote patient monitoring. It's a thing to go virtual. It requires new processes, different staffing training, different workflows. Plus, a lot of what a PCP...