More than 1,000 Florida docs band together to maintain independence, come what may to U.S. healthcare
Regardless of where President-elect Donald J. Trump tries to take the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a recently formed independent practice association in Central Florida plans to carry on with members’ plan to stand together as medical independents.
In Nov. 14 coverage of the initiative, called the Integrated Independent Physicians Network—or IP Network Florida—the Orlando Sentinel reports that the association comprises more than 1,100 Central Florida physicians.
“Although President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to repeal or replace Obamacare, experts say that the movement toward a value-based system is here to stay, because of projections that show increasing healthcare costs in the next decade,” reporter Naseem Miller writes.
“So this initiative won’t go away,” explains Larry Jones, the network’s executive director. “And both Democrats and Republicans will understand that.”
Perhaps inevitably, the subject of wide variations in imaging costs comes up in the article, which is linked below.
Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.