The Future of Primary Care Is Independence And It’s More Lucrative Than You Think
Dr. Farzad Mostashari is a physician, health policy leader, and the CEO of Aledade—a company helping independent primary care practices thrive in a system that often works against them. He’s also the former National Coordinator for Health IT, where he led one of the most ambitious digital infrastructure rollouts in healthcare history. But across every role, one mission has guided his work: fixing the machine of American healthcare by empowering the people closest to patients. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker talks with Farzad about what really drives physician burnout, the perverse incentives behind hospital consolidation, and why doctors are too often treated as interchangeable cogs in a system built for billing—not healing. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Farzad offers real solutions, backed by data, and reveals why independent practices are starting to win big in a shifting payment landscape. If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to practice medicine your
The Future of Primary Care Is Independence And It’s More Lucrative Than You Think Podcast The Future of Primary Care Is Independence And It’s More Lucrative Than You Think Offcall Team “I think it is true that physicians are cogs in that big machine when you're part of an employed system, and you got to ask yourself what is the machine's goals?” Dr. Farzad Mostashari is a physician, health policy leader, and the CEO of Aledade —a company helping independent primary care practices thrive in a system that often works against them. He’s also the former National Coordinator for Health IT, where he
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