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Health Care & Hospital Law

May 19, 2015

Medicare a thorny issue for doctors with retainers

In the wake of the creation of insurance exchange markets under the Affordable Care Act, slews of primary care physician groups merged with large hospital groups to stay economically afloat in the new era of lower reimbursement insurance rates.

By Kibkabe Araya

Daily Journal Staff Writer

In the wake of the creation of insurance exchange markets under the Affordable Care Act, slews of primary care physician groups merged with large hospital groups to stay economically afloat in the new era of lower reimbursement insurance rates.

But the primary care groups that elected not to consolidate jumped on another trend: direct primary ca...

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