With the failure of the super Congress, there's a 27% cut in Medicare reimbursement that is looming. Less well understood is the implications on primary care salaries. Dr. Matthew Mintz wrote for KevinMD that the implications would be a halving of primary care providers' salaries. Whether this will happen remains to be seen, but it is indisputable that primary care has received dramatically less reimbursement over the years.

Periodically I send an update to various friends of Avado. If you'd like to be added to that list, just email me at dchase at avado dot com. From time to time I'll share some of those updates here. After just a few weeks in the market (i.e., since we opened up our beta), it's been incredibly gratifying the response we've gotten. In a startup, you have a hypothesis that you build your product vision around and then test that hypothesis. Seasoned entrepreneurs will tell you that you've hit it out of the park if 50% of your hypotheses prove correct.

One of the most exciting developments in primary care today is the growth of Direct Primary Care (DPC) practices which are sometimes referred to as Direct Primary Care Medical Homes or sometimes Direct Patient Centered Medical Home (D-PCMH). Primary care physicians has shaken off the shackles of insurance in day-to-day medicine returning to the proverbial Marcus Welby, MD model of care. Patients love it as they get more time with doctors while saving money.

One of the fastest growing disruptive innovators in medical practice is MedLion. They are profiled by Avado's CEO, Dave Chase, in this TechCrunch piece. With over 2,000 tweets/likes/shares, it has been one of the most shared healthcare posts in the last several months.

Borrowing principles from the travel industry, this disruptive innovator has figured out a way to bring improved surgical outcomes while saving corporations tens of thousands and individuals thousands. This post written by Avado CEO, Dave Chase, originally appeared on TechCrunch here. 

Following up the Health Insurance's Bunker Buster piece, this laid out what many individuals and corporations are doing to respond to healthcare's hyperinflation. This was originally published in the Huffingotn Post. 

Avado is profiled in the leading site for venture capital, VentureBeat by Ciara Byrne a technologist/writer.

In ancient China, doctors were paid to keep their patients well. If a patient fell ill, the doctor didn’t get paid until they got better. We have gotten used to being continuously connected, so why does healthcare still revolve around an occasional face to face meeting with your doctor when something has already gone wrong?