Hyatt Clinic

05/25/2026

Happy Memorial Day from the Hyatt Clinic family to yours.

We are closed today for the holiday and will be open Tuesday May 26th.

05/11/2026

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You called your doctor and they told you the next opening is in nine months.

It's not a doctor shortage. It's a small-office shortage. And there's a reason nobody at the front desk is allowed to say it out loud.

Fifteen years ago, 75 percent of US physicians were in private practice. Today, only about 25 percent are. The rest have been absorbed into hospitals and corporate health systems. And every door that closes makes the line longer for the rest of us.

Scott Tzorfas, a solo neurologist who has held out for 30 years, joined The Podcast by KevinMD to explain exactly how it happened.

Hospitals get paid two to three times more than independent doctors for the same office visit. For an echo or an MRI, three to five times more. Same physician work, same patient, completely different check, just because of the address on the door.

Then come the prior authorizations. His office spends hour after hour getting basic things approved. Generic headache medicine. Generic medications that did not need approval five years ago. Every MRI he orders. There are commercial insurers in his area that will approve a lumbar spine MRI but refuse a cervical spine MRI, the one that can cause paralysis if missed.

He says a typical small practice now does about 40 prior auths a week, and most of the denials come from algorithms, not from a doctor in his specialty. There is often no human on the other end of the line who can override anything.

This is what physician burnout in private practice actually looks like. It is not drama. It is the slow, deliberate strangling of the small office by paperwork until the doctor sells to a hospital, sells to private equity, or just retires. And then your wait gets longer.

Scott took a different path. He dug in. He runs his practice with his wife. He is busier now than he was 15 years ago because patients keep searching for someone who will actually look at them instead of clicking boxes.

Send this to the family member who is still waiting on a callback from a specialist. Send it to the friend who got denied an MRI last month. Send it to the new doctor in your life who has not yet been told that private practice is even an option.

Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the comments.

What is the longest you have ever waited to see a specialist?

05/02/2026

🎉 Wishing a very Happy Birthday to the one and only Dr. Hyatt🎂
Thank you for all the service that you have and still do provide for the community!

04/30/2026

04/18/2026

🎪We are grateful for the opportunity to have participated as a vendor at today’s Better U Bash.

We extend our appreciation to the Healthy Communities Coalition for hosting such a well-organized event, and to everyone who stopped by our booth—we truly enjoyed connecting with you.

04/18/2026

This surgeon nails it. That’s exactly why I built a direct care model at Hyatt Clinic—simple, affordable, and actually personal. If you want high-quality care for your whole family without the insurance headaches, Hyatt Clinic is the answer.

www.hyattclinic.com

04/17/2026

🎉 DON’T MISS THIS! 🎉

We’ll be at the “Better U Bash” at the Shawnee Park Center this Saturday from 10:00am-2:00pm.
Stop by the Hyatt Clinic booth for your chance to win a door prize 🎁

Come say hi and join the fun! ✨

04/13/2026

Six to twelve months to see a neurologist. That's the reality near some major metro hospitals right now.

Scott Tzorfas has run a solo neurology practice for 30 years. He spends half his time not on patients but on prior authorizations, billing audits, and insurance phone trees that lead nowhere.

Even generic headache medications now require prior authorization. He can't get a cervical spine MRI approved through some commercial insurers. No explanation given.

Fifteen years ago, 75 percent of doctors were in private practice. Now it's roughly 25 percent. Patients are paying the price in access.

What would it take for the system to actually support independent physicians again?

Episode is in the comments.

04/06/2026

🌷Happy Easter from the Hyatt Clinic family to yours.

03/31/2026

True.

Measuring cholesterol levels has long been the main way doctors assess the risk of heart disease. Increasingly, people are opting, too, for a simple, relatively affordable test: a coronary artery calcium scan, or CAC.

The tests recently got a boost from influential clinical guidelines issued earlier this month by leading cardiology groups. These guidelines also included, for the first time, recommended levels of LDL—known as low-density lipoprotein or “bad” cholesterol—based on calcium scores from the scans.

Why does this matter to you? The more calcium you have in your heart, the lower your LDL cholesterol should be to help reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. So the scans give doctors and patients a more precise picture of your risk and whether you need to take action.

Here’s more to know about the scans: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4sIfppK