Your Care is at Our Core: Strengthening Patients’ Relationship with Physicians
The Colorado Medical Society joins more than 30 states in a campaign to strengthen patients’ relationship with physicians and highlight the importance of the physician-patient relationship for quality patient care.
Physicians are compassionate healers and their patients’ strongest allies. They persevered through years of medical school and residency to build connections with, treat, and heal their patients. Every day they aim to provide the highest quality of care – it’s what all those hours and all of that training prepared them for. This is their calling; what drives them every day.
The best days for physicians come when they are close at hand with their patients, facing challenges head on and providing support to patients in their journey to health. Physicians’ worst days come when they spend valuable time fighting with third parties to ensure patients can access the care they need.
Physicians are Patients’ Strongest Allies in Health
Yet in recent years, physicians have faced reputational challenges brought on by broader frustrations within health care. Americans want to see more of their physicians – 89% of national voters agree that the doctor-patient relationship is central to health care – yet too often, the system gets in the way. Now more than ever, physicians find themselves stuck between a desire to connect with patients and a need to navigate seemingly endless red tape and bureaucracy.
Colorado Medical Society Champions the Patient-Physician Relationship
Your Care is at Our Core was created to elevate the message of what drives physicians: trust, empathy, compassion, and time caring and fighting for their patients – emphasizing that their personal relationship to their patients is a priority and a commitment to their care.
Prior Authorization
More than 1 in 4 physicians reported prior authorization has led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. Years of education and training make physicians well-equipped to provide high quality health care decisions, yet prior authorization undermines physicians’ treatment decisions. The Colorado Medical Society’s physicians want to reform the health care system, to keep treatment decisions between a patient and their physician.
Medicaid
Every patient deserves a trusted physician to be on their side, explaining health conditions, answering questions, and ensuring patients truly understand their care. Physicians bring expertise, empathy, and years of training to the patient-physician relationship – and Medicaid protects a physician’s ability to provide care by ensuring access to care for the patients who need it most.
Scope of Practice
Physicians are trained to lead a team of health care providers. Driven by a calling to heal and save lives, physicians devote years to education and clinical training, preparing to advocate for their patients and working together to make informed health care decisions. As leaders on a health care team, physicians can help their patients make informed decisions about their health.
Join Us
Join us in pushing back against the bureaucratic red tape of health care and advocating for what matters most – time to treat and care for their patients, to be their patients’ strongest ally, and to give both personal and physical attention to their patients.
How Colorado’s Physicians Can Get Involved
- Scope of practice key tools & resources
- Prior authorization reform resources
- Strengthening Medicaid
- Share your story
How All Colorado Patients Can Get Involved
- See how well you know your health care team
- Prior authorization explained
- Prior authorization employer toolkit
- Physicians are trained to lead
- Physician-led care supports patient access to care
- Share your story