Bay Area House Call Physicians

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There was a time when most physician visits were made in the patients’ homes. However, as technology progressed, hospitals began to offer better diagnostic and treatment tools. Inventions such as the X-ray machine and laboratory tests changed the way medicine was practiced. Physicians started bringing patients to the hospital to take advantage of these tools. Eventually, they set up offices with this high-tech equipment and patients came to see them, and then things got really efficient. They could line up people in their rooms and see twenty to thirty people in a day! Making house calls was less efficient, but doctors still tried to meet their patients’ needs by providing house calls when their patients were very sick. Then medical costs began to soar as more and more expensive tests, treatments, and medicines became available. In an effort to cut costs, Medicare and managed care started to reimburse less for a physician’s time and instead pay mostly by procedure. As our nation’s medical costs continue to increase, primary care physicians’ reimbursement continues to decrease. Now, physicians are forced to work longer days and see more patients just to cover the costs of running their practices. Most physicians simply cannot afford to make house calls.

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