Restoring humanity in healthcare by helping physicians lead with purpose, autonomy, and connection. #IndependentMedicinemerokacollective.comJoined June 2022
Today, 35,000+ medical students find out where the system is sending them.
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Cash-pay isn't a dirty word. It's a lifeline when insurers drown you in denials. But it only works if it *lowers* costs for patients. How can indy practices make that the standard?
The missing piece in most AI pricing conversations: who owns the care relationship matters. If AI-powered care flows through PE-owned or corporate systems, pricing will optimize for margin. If it flows through independent, physician-owned practices, pricing can actually optimize for patients. That's why we're building Meroka.
Private equity's playbook is simple: consolidate practices, cut costs, and squeeze profits. Physicians become cogs. Patients become numbers. It's not inevitable. What's the alternative?
@LeahHoustonMD@Innovate_FB@martinamps Cash is the way. Well, in the US at least. Bypass the prior auth rage, the denials, the paperwork tax. Lets you take back control...
How can physicians increase cash-pay services while still lowering costs for patiens?
@Bob_Wachter@dpatil@cwclub@Bob_Wachter Always fascinating to hear how data can fix a system that seems determined to break itself. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
@mcuban@HammondOnHealth Preach!!! And when docs consolidate under hospital systems, insurers get to negotiate even *lower* rates. Independence is the only leverage left.
@kevinmd "Joy in medicine" shouldn't be a revolutionary concept, but here we are. Building independent practices lets physicians rediscover that joy. It's possible to reclaim autonomy and patient care from the admin abyss....
$275 billion.
That’s how much the federal government takes from hard working Americans and hands to hospital systems every year in subsidies, tax breaks, and payment advantages.
Independent physicians receive $0 of it.
The Break Up Big Medicine Act touches $0 of it.
Not a coincidence.
Warren and Hawley love the American Hospital Association.
And where are the @GOPDoctors?
Nowhere.
Independent medicine isn’t “inefficient.” It’s just not optimized for PE’s exit multiple, Epic’s note bloat, or an insurer’s 12-step prior auth ritual. Patients want doctors, not a spreadsheet. Keep your practice. Build a collective. Fight back.
@EricTopol@AnnalsofIM@ACPIMPhysicians The whole system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed - replace physicians with "providers", patients with "customers" and you get a system that values "profits" over health.
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