What Is The Initial Step To Regain Work Life Balance As A Doctor?

Matthew Gallogly argues that insurance contracts deliberately overload doctors with low-paying patients and administrative work. His first step: audit your contracts and drop the bottom 20% of providers who underpay or deny claims. He says this boundary-setting reduces stress and reclaims time.
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Hey, are you a doctor? Do you wonder if it's ever possible that you can have a good work-life balance? Well, that's what we're gonna talk about today. All right, so let's talk about work-life balance as a doctor. Yeah, I know you just laughed. I get it. I understand. You know, here's a little bit of a secret though. Doctors are not the only ones that struggle with work-life balance. In fact, most high achievers, people that are driven to be successful, that are excellent at their craft, we all struggle with this fact. So what I want to do today is I'm going to give you key things that we teach our clients of how to handle work-life balance. The first thing is, is you need to understand is everything that you've been taught about what it takes to become successful and everything that you learned in med school, residency, and your entire life as a doctor is actually structured so that you are stayed out of balance. And I believe that part of that is actually done by the industry and the insurance industry so that, quite frankly, you don't have time to think about making any other choices. So what we're going to do today is I'm going to give you a couple of key things that my doctors do in order to regain work-life balance. Okay, so the first thing is, let's say that you are insurance— you're an insurance provider. Here's what a schedule looks like for you. You have 30 clients or 30 new patients a day, plus a couple follow-ups. By the end of the day, you're probably seeing 50, 60 patients, and you're doing that 4, 5 days a week. Then you go home at night and you have to do all your charting, or you do it on the weekend, so you really don't feel like you get any time. Hey, I'm Matthew Gallogly, and I'm a Maverick. Well, what is a Maverick? A Maverick goes against the grain. We find our own way. And if you're sick and tired of being pushed around by the insurance companies, Come join us. We'll show you the way out, and you'll love medicine again. All right, here's the first thing you do. Go through all of your insurance providers and cut the bottom 20%. Yep, that's exactly what I just said. You're gonna cut the bottom 20% of your insurance providers, the ones that don't pay you, that send you denial letters, That treat you like garbage and make you run through hoops to get paid the money that you richly deserve, right? So let's just get rid of the people that are the bad actors. I know, worried about your patients. Well, what's going to happen to them? Well, you've got to maintain, you've got to create boundaries in your life. All right, you want some more great insights of how to get more great work-life balance? I'll tell you what, that was just one insight. I've got lots of them in my book, The Anatomy of a 7-Figure Medical Practice. And it's yours for free. Just follow the link that you're seeing pointed or somewhere on this video. It'll take you right to the page. You can get the book for absolutely free. And this book right here has all kinds of great information that's gonna give you more work-life balance so that you can tell the insurance companies to take a hike and leave you alone. So get the book, follow the link that's on here, and we'll talk to you soon.
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