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.