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April 22, 2024: The Importance of Philosophy of Care and Scope of Practice
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 6
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We believe that the clinicians’ philosophy of care and their scope of practice are foundational elements that create the opportunity for success in a prospective…
April 22, 2024: How Does the Pre-Paid, Advanced Primary Care Model Change How a Patient’s Needs are Understood and Addressed? The Key Role of Data
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 5
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In the APC model, data plays a vital role in effective caring for patients. The challenge is how to pull together all the data…
April 22, 2024: The Need to Improve/Grow the Culture in a Primary Care Practice?
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care – Part 4
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In this throughput culture, we currently have both the administrative and system levels stressing the need to see more patients, see more patients. Shifting that to…
April 22, 2024: The Underlying Economic and Moral Assumptions
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care — The Future of Primary Care — Part 3
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Another example of where US healthcare has gotten off track in the FFS system is with regard to the providers “fiduciary responsibility.” This encompasses the belief of the…
April 22, 2024: Moving from Administrator-Driven Leadership to Physician-Driven Leadership?
Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care Part 2
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In the FFS paradigm, practice management has come to play a lead role. Administrators monitor the patient’s flow through the office, and they focus on…
April 22, 2024: Why Transfrom: Moving from Fee for Service to Prospective Payment in Primary Care: Advanced Primary Care: The Future of Primary Care Part 1
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Overview
This series of blog posts will provide a detailed description of a model for primary care service delivery that we call Advanced Primary Care. Why Advanced? Because it takes the core principles and practices of whole-person primary care and transforms them into a proactive process…
October 21, 2019: Primary Care for All
An initiative that will transform the U.S. health system so that it is driven by Advanced Primary Care
by Dr. Scott Conard
There is a group of us who are working together to bring a foundation of advanced primary care to every American. With this foundation we can establish a…
October 10, 2019: We Are Healers
We did not go into medicine to survive in a system of computer/paper work, administrative hassle, financial struggles, or corporate employee gamesmanship.
by Dr. Scott Conard
We are healers, and we make a tremendous difference in our patients lives. But misaligned incentives, the industrialization of medicine, legal and administrative burdens,…