MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — UnitedHealth Group advised the Connecticut major care medical doctors every little thing they wished to listen to.
Take our cash, the corporate mentioned, and collectively we will convey a few future the place major care leads. A future the place medical doctors can take higher care of their sufferers, and reap the monetary rewards of improved well being. We’ll deal with the enterprise facet when you take care of your sufferers.
As a substitute, nearly 10 years after UnitedHealth purchased ProHealth Physicians, the first care community is a shell of its former self. Docs are retiring sooner than they deliberate, or leaving for competing practices. Sufferers with severe medical situations wrestle to make appointments, whereas others complain of mysterious diagnoses popping up of their charts. Disillusioned, many sufferers are leaving.
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