Bonus: Stop the Kick-backs! with Dr. Marion Mass

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Marion Mass is a practicing pediatrician who is also a physician advocate and healthcare activist. She is driven to take back medicine for patients and the medical profession. The COVID-19 pandemic threw a spotlight on dangerous deficiencies within the US healthcare industry. At the center of these deficiencies are Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), which are healthcare intermediaries that increase costs and create drug and supply shortages. Although GPOs and PBMs don't produce or distribute a single product or provide direct care to a single patient, they control nearly 90% of the pharmaceutical supply chain. These middlemen amass huge profits because they enjoy government-mandated safe harbor protections at the expense of physician practice needs, sound medical decision-making, and patient choice. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marion Mass, MD, is a pediatrician in the Philadelphia area and co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America. She is a graduate of the Duke University Medical School and was trained in pediatrics at Northwestern University.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show notes available at <a href= "https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/mass" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/mass</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contact us at <a href= "https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/contact-us/</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support the show at <a href= "https://patreon.com/rxforsuccess" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://patreon.com/rxforsuccess</a></span></p>