Originally Posted by Unregistered

No initiative from admin is ever intended to increase health care spending. It is always to cut.
Always remember where your responsibilities lie. Patients.
Drs are paid to see patients. You see one patient the patient pays. Doesnt matter how good or how crap your consult was. How short or long. At least in most FM situations.
There is no outcome based remuneration system.
This is why defensive medicine is king now.
Order more tests is safer also feeds into what patient wants. And in some cases can charge more. In cases of flat rate fees then is system lose money not patient also.
Medicine is all about volume.
How many patients you see.
How many patients you op.
The more you see and do the more you earn.
The outcome? As long as not bad no complications actually can already. Be competent but there is no reward for being Dr House.