And the point here is for the insurance companies to make "house calls" profitable...Good mention of Dr. Parkinson, which you can find his site under the "blog roll" section here of how he uses the New York metro area to serve his patients....again part of his success is being innovative in a densely populated area and catering to a selected group of patients who would other wise find difficulty in getting medical care...he uses every bit of technology at his fingertips...but once again we have to wait and see what Medicare will do before medical services of such will be compensated...as private industry will usually follow the precedence of Medicare...Dr. Parkinson is doing his share to help relieve the congestion at the ER room...BD
The next time you see the doctor, you might not spend an hour in a waiting room, read eight-month-old magazines or be examined in a cold, antiseptic room. You might not do any of these things, because the next time you see the doctor, you might see him at your own home. In New York City, health care has joined Chinese food as a takeout option. The once common but now rare house call is making a comeback. Thanks to smaller, more portable tests, a lack of urgent care infrastructure and a willingness to ignore insurance companies, the last year has seen a boom in doctors who integrate house calls into their business to provide convenience and care for a wide range of patients.
From the demand side, Parkinson and Glatter have tapped into a client base fed up with the state of urgent care. This is a level of need below emergency but above a chronic problem, like a large cut that needs stitches or a bad case of the flu or strep. Most of those cases are routed to emergency rooms, where the patients will most likely sit for hours, triaged as a lower priority than gunshot wounds or labors.
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