One Age Does Not Fit All: Late Career Practitioner Policies and Managed Care
AHLA thanks the leaders of the Payers, Plans, and Managed Care Practice Group for contributing this feature article.
- May 01, 2022
- Adella Katz
- John J. LoCurto , University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
Dr. Abel Healer gazes down at his 70th birthday cake. He is surrounded by friends and colleagues who fill the break room of the hospital, where for decades he has treated patients and trained residents. Blowing out the candles, Dr. Healer looks forward to more days doing what he loves—practicing medicine. In a conference room several floors above the festivities, the hospital’s credentialing committee highlights Dr. Healer’s name on its roster and prepares his first birthday gift: a direction to undergo a battery of visual and neurological tests reserved for physicians age 70 and older. After all, Dr. Healer is now a late career practitioner.
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