Contents tagged with practice transformation
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MACRA and managing change
By Ajay Gupta, MD
TAFP President, 2015-2016As many of you are acutely aware, our health care delivery system is undergoing dramatic changes. For those of you who have been around as long as I have, this has been a similar theme for several years. One common phrase I have heard over the years is the idea of “change.” Many of us have been frustrated by the changes in the past. These changes have been unfavorable for family medicine. One thing is clear: the current system is broken and unsustainable.
Every day patients ask my opinion on these changes. Will it help family medicine? Will private practice survive? What’s going to happen to you and your colleagues? I respond by telling them I feel our current system is indeed broken.
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 67 No. 2, Spring 2016
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Perspective
CONTENTS
TMF Health Quality Institute: Helping you succeed in the transformation from volume to value is … more
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Anthony Lyssy, DO
Emily Briggs, MD, MPH, opened her own full scope practice in New Braunfels, Texas, which also highlights full scope obstetrics. She recently joined a physician-led Accountable Care Organization … more
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Member of the Month: Anthony Lyssy, DO
Member of the Month: Anthony Lyssy, DO
Direct primary care doc helps patients focus on prevention
posted 9.2.15
After completing medical school at UNTHSC in Fort Worth and completing a … more
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Van Winkle ACO
Lloyd Van Winkle, MD, of Castroville, Texas, collaborated with like-minded family physicians in his region to form an accountable care organization that now participates in the Medicare Shared … more
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A physician-led Austin ACO
Family physicians in Austin and in Bastrop joined forces to form a physician-led accountable care organization. Now they can maintain their independent practices while benefiting from the size … more
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Emily Briggs, MD, MPH -- Network of encouragement
Emily Briggs, MD, MPH, opened her own full scope practice in New Braunfels, Texas, which also highlights full scope obstetrics. She recently joined a physician-led Accountable Care Organization … more
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Clare Hawkins, MD -- Independent Physician Association
Clare Hawkins, MD, serves as Board Chair of the Houston-based Baytown Independent Physician Association for Renaissance Physician Organization, which is comprised of 500 primary care physicians … more
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Ajay Gupta, MD -- Cultivating patient relationships
Ajay Gupta, MD, practices in the Austin area as part of an Accountable Care Organization. He says choosing to partner with an ACO allows his practice to keep its independence and continue … more
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Janet Hurley, MD - Opportunity knocks
Janet Hurley, MD, cares for patients in Whitehouse, a rural community in East Texas. Her small practice is part of a clinically integrated system. She says opportunities abound for family … more