Empower-Patient Accounts

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By Robert Koshnick, MD, FAAFP

It is apparent that Dr. Koshnick has thought long and hard about what ails our expensive, bureaucratic, and inefficient health care system. More importantly, he has come up with a panoply of solutions that deal with the problem of third parties, rather than patients, controlling the flow of dollars. With the guidance of their primary care physician, Dr. Koshnick’s ideas will put the patient back in control facilitating the care that they need while driving costs down.

Lee Kurisko, MD, author of Health Reform: The End of the American Revolution?

Patients and families, when making ongoing spending decisions using personal Empower-Patient Accounts, would want to follow the advice of physicians with whom they have a trusting professional partnership and receive active medical care. In this timely book, Dr. Robert Koshnick explains why primary care fee-for-service medical practices should be replaced with voluntary primary care retainer arrangements. Strong doctor-patient primary care relationships improve continuity of care post-hospital, following or leading up to a specialty-procedure and prescription medication coordination and management.

Lee Beecher, MD, author of Passion for Patients

I believe that Direct Primary Care (DPC) has the answers to our state’s and our nation’s healthcare problems. It provides patient-centric care without involving the inefficient and expensive insurance industry. Insurance needs to be available for catastrophic needs but should not and cannot be expected to provide all of a patient’s healthcare needs. DPC provides for reduced healthcare costs with better health!

 Tim Mulder, MD, family medicine physician, Willmar, MN

Dr. Koshnick articulates an incredible future glide path to better and more efficient medical and health economy. A rich body of evidence is growing to show the value of high deductible health plans combined with emerging tools of price transparency, DPC, and Health Savings Accounts. With new bipartisan initiatives in price transparency combined with a hungry technology sector seeking to build the lifesaving and enhancing apps of the future, the prospect of self-directed medical care leading the United States and global citizens to a higher health state is compellingly argued.

Stephen T. Parente, PhD, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and co-author of The Economics of US Health Care Policy

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