Relentless Health Value

In this health care podcast, I’m speaking with Dan O’Neill, MA, MS. Dan says that, in many ways, this is a fantastic time to be an entrepreneurial physician leader. We are in a place to reinvent the practice model, meaning finding ways to increase value while losing bloated business practices in labor and capital. It’s more possible than ever to make a medical practice more efficient and effective with less overhead and, at the same time, meet the needs of patients in ways that are, you know, were impossible in the business model of five years ago and earlier. It’s just a new world, and I don’t just mean because of COVID. I mean in all the ways that everybody—including me—has been squawking about for years: consumerism, the rise of technology and its attendant expectations, Medicare running out of money, and employers who have cried uncle on rising health care costs and/or gone out of business. The silver lining in everyone getting used to telehealth and aggregated FFS (fee-for-service) revenue tanking for a