Physician-patient e-mails cut doctors’ salaries

Physician emails to patients cut down costs at the expense of physician incomes. Matthew Holt calls this part of the bizarro world of fee-for-service care:

This is of course great news. Productivity goes up, patients are happier and their care is probably better. Of course in the bizzaro world of health care that we live in, this would translate into a 7″“10% decline in primary care physicians’ incomes.

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