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S1 Ep174: Insurance was never meant to be a first-dollar payer, with Joanne Frederick
Joanne Frederick, CEO of Government Market Strategies, has spent more than 30 years working inside Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and VA health programs, and she opens with the one most physicians know least. Tricare covers 9.4 million service members, families and retirees, and pays at a discount off Medicare rates that plenty of practices already say don't cover their costs.
From there Frederick makes a broader argument: that insurance was never designed to sit between a patient and a physician for routine care, and that the administrative layer built around that arrangement now consumes an…
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