Can independent primary care doctors survive dominance of hospital health systems?
Cloe Poisson :: C-HIT.ORG
Dr. Khuram Ghumman asks patient Tully Zorick, 5, to hop on one foot during a check up at East Granby Family Practice, LLC where he is in private practice. Dr. Ghumman takes care of the entire Zorick family.
Every day, Dr. Leslie Miller of Fairfield thinks about selling her practice to a hospital health system.
“Everybody who is in this environment thinks every day of throwing in the towel and joining a hospital,” said Miller, a sole practitioner in primary care for 20 years. “The business side is the problem,” she said, referring to expensive and time-consuming requirements of medical insurance and government regulations.
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CT hospital systems increasingly buying private medical practices
Peggy McCarthy, Conn. Health I-Team WriterConn. Health I-Team Writer
April 7, 2021
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Dr. Khuram Ghumman directs patient Carlos Padilla where to look as he checks his eyes during an annual physical at East Granby Family Practice, LLC where he is in private practice.Conn. Health I-Team / Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
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Primary care practitioners in hospital systems’ practices of 30 or more doctors increased from 1,100 in 2016 to 1,441 in 2019 - a 31 percent rise, according to data from the state Office of Health StrategyCHITShow MoreShow Less
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Dr. Khuram Ghumman asks patient Tully Zorick, 5, to hop on one foot during a checkup at East Granby Family Practice, LLC where he is in private practice. Dr. Ghumman takes care of the entire Zorick family.Conn. Health I-Team / Cloe PoissonShow MoreShow Less
Cloe Poisson
Every day, Dr. Leslie Miller of Fairfield thinks about selling her practice to a hospital health system.
“Everybody who is in this environment thinks every day of throwing in the towel and joining a hospital,” said Miller, a sole practitioner in primary care for 20 years. “The business side is the problem,” she said, referring to expensive and time-consuming requirements of medical insurance and government regulations.
Dr. Khuram Ghumman took the unusual route of working in a hospital system first, then going into private primary care practice because he objects to the “corporatization” of health care. He said conflicts of interest can arise if an owner and its employed physicians have different objectives. “I wanted to be responsible to my patients,” Ghumman said.
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