Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the General Medical Clinic moving its primary care physicians to concierge or DPC models
Describe how General Medical Clinic’s business model would need to change if it moved to either model? Specifically, how would its value, input, processes, and revenues change?
Ans.) Concierge medicine and direct primary care (DPC) are two models of primary treatment that have detonated in notoriety in the course of the most recent two decades. In spite of the fact that the terms are regularly utilized reciprocally, they are not the equivalent. This can be mistaking for the two patients and specialists who have an enthusiasm for changing over to these models of primary care.
Advantages and disadvantages of the General Medical Clinic moving its primary care to concierge or DPC models –
Hence, moving from primary care physicians to concierge or DPC models have both the pros and cons.
The General Medical Clinic’s business model would change if it moved to either model as both the models have their different financial aspect. Hence, with the change of the model the financial status may also changed.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the General Medical Clinic moving its primary care physicians to...
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