Doctors: Employed, to private practice, and back

The Concord Monitor has the story of the New Hampshire-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock Concord clinic. Founded by five doctors who left working for one hospital, they just couldn’t make ends meet in today’s economic environment for primary care, so they ending up selling to another hospital. 

“The bottom line is it’s about money,” said Dr. Frank Betchart. “The expenses and costs of doing business were going up and the revenue was flat, and there wasn’t anything we could do to counter that except seeing more patients, which didn’t make sense.”

Concord Hospital buys up practice [via The Concord Monitor]

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