[PDF] Direct Pay: A Simpler Way to Practice Medicine Divya Srinivasan Sridhar

This books reviews direct pay business models, clarifies what it is, how practices view and have been able to create business models using different fee structures including: fee for care; fee for extra service or fee for non-covered services, and fee for service hybrid models. The author includes interviews with physicians and case studies, a perspective on why and how the subject originated, how and why became important in a challenging health reform environment and suggests trends for the future. The book examines the possibilities of direct pay for improving the practice of medicine through greater efficiency and effectiveness.