YouTube video (speaker: Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter) criticizing how the insurance reimbursement model reduces clinicians' time with patients. The speaker argues that declining reimbursements force clinicians to see more patients in fewer minutes, preventing comprehensive assessment and limiting ability to improve recovery or performance.
Staying with the insurance model, it makes it very difficult to do a complete job of caring for these patients. Declining reimbursement is a problem. So insurance companies control our reimbursement, and over time, we're receiving less and less for what we do. Everybody in the industry understands that declining reimbursement isn't just a problem of us getting less money, it's a problem of us getting less time with our patients. So as our reimbursements decline, we have to see more and more patients for fewer and fewer minutes. And so we really don't have as many minutes in the day with patients to really determine what's contributing to their health issues. How can we help them better? How can we increase their performance or improve their recovery? Because we don't have time to spend with them. So I think staying with the insurance model, it makes it very difficult to do a complete job of caring for these patients.
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