Hospital for Special Surgery: Providers Adding More Clinic Days
The healthcare administration issue that this research study will address is the lack of patient access for the underserved community to be seen by an orthopedic physician at Hospital for Special Surgery. The patients with state insurance, or financial help (no-coverage at all) must go through a process of being “referred” to the clinic. The physicians that decide to take clinic days are given certain days of the week to see these patients which was mandated by Hospital for Special Surgery. The issue is that the providers that are seeing clinic patients, are only doing it once a month for half a day. This has caused the wait time for these patients to be 2-3 months or more.
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