By NextBestFitLimits choice or applies one rule to every setting
The path narrows options for patients, workers, or organizations, or sets one rule that fits some places poorly. This matters most when the remaining options don't meet people's needs, and less when adjustments are allowed.
Under your mix of paths
Caused or worsened by these paths
A cost these paths share. Each path's page says how it applies there.
Employers lose health coverage as a recruiting tool.
National rates may not fit island cost structures without adjustments.
Uniform prices can be too high in low-cost areas and too low in high-cost areas.
An error in the shared rulebook affects everyone.
A shared formulary leaves fewer brand choices for some patients.
Primary care coordination through registration introduces gatekeeping that limits direct specialist access.
Liability protection relies on following recognized guidelines, which may not fit every patient.
The public billing restriction limits clinicians’ flexibility to combine public and private practice.
Salary payment gives clinicians less autonomy.