Transforming Healthcare Together: A Model for Restoring the Covenant of Trust

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America's insurance-driven healthcare system is a mess. It's a cause of frustration to both patients who can't afford care and physicians who are overloaded by bureaucracy. After experiencing near-burnout early in his professional career, Dr. Yeager embarked on a vintage model of healthcare which eliminates third-party payors and returns medicine to the historic covenant of trust between patient and physician. Using vignettes from his primary care practice, he outlines a model which is far simpler and cheaper than it might appear. Transforming Healthcare Together provides a historical overview as well as an analysis of our current crisis and outlines a faith-based cooperative partnership between physicians, patients, and pastors.

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Joel E. Yeager, MD, is a board-certified family physician who practices in rural Pennsylvania. Early in his medical career, he chose to enhance his patient care by creating a practice that does not utilize third-party payors. Dr. Yeager says this is the best business decision he has ever made. His belief that this practice model could transform the face of healthcare in America led to this book. As of late 2018, Heritage Family Health is celebrating its seventh anniversary and is thriving. Dr. Yeager was raised in a conservative Mennonite community in Pennsylvania. His training took him to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Colorado Rockies before a very rich five-year international medical training program (MD, Kigezi International School of Medicine). He and his wife LuAnne were tutored in Cambridge, England and did clinical rotations throughout England, Scotland, Uganda, and the USA. Their family and community medicine residency was completed through Penn State Hershey Medical Center and the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Hobbies outside medicine include choral singing, photography, cooking on the Big Green Egg, and doting over three Yorkies--Lancelot, Tucker, and Mollie.