Letter: HMSA plan no-go for independent doctors
HMSA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Stefanie Park claims a vertically integrated HMSA-Hawaii Pacific Health entity would be a solution to our doctor shortage. The problem is that HMSA and HPH are committed to a primary care payment model already tried for a decade, and it required substantially higher practice costs for primary care.
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