Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Opinion
Improving Diabetes Care by Directing a New Compensation Model for Endocrinologists
Author(s): Kevin Eliason*
There is a consensus that payment for administrative services does not go far enough to support the provision of high-value care. Our Enterprise, a Pittsburgh-based payer-supplier corporation, created an endocrinologists' elective compensation model. With our arrangement, endocrinologists' jobs are continuously shifting away from clinical responsibilities and toward a more collaborative role with their key consideration partners. Given that the majority of diabetic patients are managed under primary care, this change enables endocrinologists to assist primary care physicians (PCPs) in managing patients with diabetes and other endocrinerelated illnesses while reducing the frequency of usual in-office references to endocrinology. Despite the unanticipated changes that COVID welcomed, during the first nine months of the pay model, we observed its impact on care delivery as well .. View More»
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