will work for FOOD, no longer accepting insurance.
dr. aaron blackledge, founder of CarePractice, whom i wrote about here.
“I would much rather you come to my clinic with a homemade pie than deal with your insurance company’s EOB, their Explanation of Benefit.”
Aaron Blackledge M.D. Founder of Care Practice Urgent & Primary Doctors in San Francisco, CA standing on Jones St, known as Pill Hill, where people in the city often go to buy diverted medications and narcotics.
The complete failure of the current employer-financed insurance reimbursement system means that the difficulties in taking insurance have reached the point that doctors can no longer afford to accept it as a form of payment. In many interactions between patients and doctors relying on insurance, the doctor ends up actually losing money. A simple demonstration of appreciation would be a vast improvement to the current system. This site exists to stimulate discussions among physicians about new fee-for-service models that are not concierge- or retainer-based practices, but simply doctors delivering exceptional care at transparent and affordable prices.
Too often, attention has been focused on boutique and concierge models that cater to the wealthy and divert us from what we should really be talking about. The insurance industry is no longer delivering a viable model of reimbursement and it is time we started addressing this with a sense urgent caring about the practice of medicine. Any kind of Health Care Reform, at any level, will fail if it does not recognize this reality. It is time to inspire doctors to get back to doing what they love: practicing medicine.
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