What is SIMPD?

The Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design (SIMPD) is an organization of physicians promoting a direct financial relationship with their patients in order to restore the integrity of the patient-physician relationship. It is our mission to ensure that physicians and patients retain the right to design and implement practices that enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, service, and value of healthcare.

Our goals are to:

  1. Educate individuals, employers, and physicians about why returning to a system where doctors work for patients, not insurance companies nor the government, is the only feasible way to control escalating healthcare costs.
  2. Equip established physicians with the means to convert their practice to a direct pay model and help those who already operate a direct practice to grow.
  3. Convince lawmakers that the only cure to our broken medical payment system is to redefine health insurance and allow doctors to work for our patients, instead of insurance companies and the government.

We believe that direct practices are possible in most markets.  Local demographics will dictate the structure of each individual practice.  This is not just healthcare for the rich as portrayed by the media.  It is a significant component of the cure to our broken healthcare system.

 
The Society for Innovative Practice Design brings together physicians who understand and accept the challenge of bridging the gap between the theory and the practice of consumer driven medicine... [read more]
American medical care has been through a very rough last 2 decades. While the price of care and health insurance has increased at double digit rates, physician reimbursement corrected for inflation has been stagnant... [read more]
 
Right now American medicine is good, but not as good as it should be given that we pay more per citizen for our care than any other country in the world. Most of us are mystified when we can?t reach our physician, wait for hours in the waiting room or find that routine care appointments are being scheduled months in the future... [read more]
Employers have been the obvious financial victims of the current insurance driven medical care mess. They have braved insatiable double digit inflation in medical care and medical insurance costs. This might be excusable if it had also resulted in improvements in medical care itself, but such has not been the case... [read more]
In the Media
Direct Primary Care: A New Brew in Seattle

A Harvard medical student recognizes that direct medical practices are the optimal way to provide a true medical home. [read more]
In the Media
Letter to the Editor: Maybe Government Isn't the Best Answer for Insurance

Victoria C. Bunce and J.P. Wieske are correct when they discuss the malignant potential of mandates and regulations as it relates to the health insurance marketplace ("Mandate Update," op-ed, Feb. 8). I might further suggest that we stop using the term health insurance since we really cannot insure against our health. The proper term should be accident and sickness insurance. [read more]
In the Media
The GOP's Prescription for Health Care

Health care has been a sleeper issue in the Republican presidential primaries. But as we heard in President Bush's State of the Union address last night, the GOP does have ideas -- bit and transformative ideas designed to energize the free market to target many of the problems that plague our health sector. [read more]