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Open Enrollment Guide (2020 Edition)

The Direct Doctors Difference

Know your family: Unfortunately, because this can be so complicated, many patients simply select the most inclusive insurance options, which are also the most expensive. Are your current doctors taking your finances into consideration or prescribing and ordering expensive medications/tests without thinking about it?

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What’s next for value-based care

Permanente Medicine

And then I’m also joined by my colleague Dr. Nolan Chang, and he is a board-certified family medicine physician and executive vice president of Strategy, Corporate Development and Finance for The Permanente Federation. But that’s the problem with most of health care today. It is a different experience.

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