Rotenburg: Healthcare systems will default to denying care to cut costs
Fay Rottenberg · These People Are Engaging Their Doctors 45x a Year · Jul 14, 2023 · at 2:51
Faye Rotenburg is the CEO of Firefly Health. She discusses how misaligned incentives drive healthcare payers and providers to choose harmful cost-reduction strategies.
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“And certainly when the easiest but not the best way to remove costs from the system is either to deny care to patients or push more of the payment burden onto patients, that's exactly what will happen.”
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