BC Advantage - 2018 Issue 5

MIPS Are we really improving quality of care Survey says

I recently attended a seminar offered by a local functional medicine doctor. I was intrigued to learn about a practice that operates solely on private pay patients-or what I like to call “boutique medicine.” Her agenda for the evening was supposed to cover alternative, holistic methods to healing the body of common diseases such as high blood pressure, anxiety, diabetes, and obesity.However, it quickly spun into a night of bash-the-insurance-companies.Her biggest issue was with payers defining her value based off their perception of quality of care—thus focusing on metrics and hitting numbers that she...

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