Doctors are leveraging a competitive market as more leave their private practices behind, Modern Healthcare reports. Health systems, insurers, private equity firms, large physician groups and growing for-profit primary-care practices are making their best pitch to lure physicians and their referral networks.
Building out an IT infrastructure to transition to new payment models featuring downside risk, efficiently manage electronic health records, keep tabs on revenue cycles and roll out a telehealth platform can be daunting. The pandemic’s throttling of non-urgent procedures pushed doctors who were already learning toward retirement. Read more.