An update to this post. Larry A Green Center / Primary Care Collaborative’s Covid-19 primary care survey, May 8-11, 2020: In less than two months, clinicians have transformed primary care, the largest health care platform in the nation, with 85% now making significant use of virtual health through video-based and telephone-based care. Larry A GreenContinue reading “DPC is uniquely able to telemed: a meme that suffered an early death.”
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DPC and the pandemic: more capable than FFS? Or less?
DPC advocates are talking a lot these days about how a pandemic shows the superiority of direct primary care. There are aspects they don’t talk about. The Milliman study’s survey — the same survey DPC advocates turn to when emphasizing, for example, how much telemedicine DPC clinics do — indicated that over a third ofContinue reading “DPC and the pandemic: more capable than FFS? Or less?”
Direct Primary Care & COVID-19: some takes on Dr. White’s piece on dpcalliance.com
Update 4/22/2020. This one was mostly reactive to Dr White’s DPCAlliance.com essay on DPC and COVID-19. That was dated 3/19/20. I wrote this mostly in reaction to unseemly opportunism, not so much by White as by Flanagan and Springer as discussed. In retrospect, what DPC Coalition tried to do here looks almost pathetic. Expressly pitchingContinue reading “Direct Primary Care & COVID-19: some takes on Dr. White’s piece on dpcalliance.com”
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