The HORNE Healthcare team has been blogging recently about the necessary business model changes we think are inevitable to healthcare transformation. We’ve focused on the macro level, urging healthcare organizations to take action. Although I believe our advice is sound for large systems, I am additionally concerned about the pressures physicians are feeling in their practices, particularly in small practices. Here, I’d like to introduce three issues I think will be important to physicians going forward. I will write in greater depth on each topic in the coming weeks.

Getting paid for the work they do

Value-based payments are not coming sometime in the future. They are here now, and physicians who are not already in value-based arrangements are months, if not years, behind.

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