Helping Communities Thrive with Primary Care for All, with Dr. Christopher Crow

Catalyst Health Network’s physicians are intent on the vision of “Primary Care for All”, serving communities that are mired in a systemic, multi-generational crisis—where one in three children in Dallas lives in poverty, the third-highest rate of child poverty in the nation. Listen to Podcast

Strength in numbers: How physicians can work together and thrive

Many independent practice owners today are in a difficult bind. By training and temperament, they are fiercely devoted to maintaining their autonomy. But survival in today’s environment requires the financial resources and access to patient data that doctors usually can get only by being part of a hospital system or… Read More

Catalyst Health Network Adds to Its C-Suite

The accountable care organization is expanding its leadership to include a Chief People Officer and a Chief Technology Officer. Read Article

The Challenge of Vaccinating Medical Deserts in Southern Dallas

“If our goal is to have to have herd immunity, we’re going to have to have to make sure that we’re not just looking out for ourselves.” Read Article

Death, disaster and triumph: How 2020 rocked health care forever

The pandemic left a trail of death and destruction and spotlighted U.S. failures. But it also led to major breakthroughs in health care. Read Article

Will the pandemic disruption reshape how we pay for primary care?

Dr. Christopher Crow, CEO of Plano, TX-based Catalyst Health Network, an independent clinically integrated network, discusses how the pandemic-induced recession is accelerating employer and insurer interest in changing the way they pay for care. Listen to Podcast

Dallas lawmaker wants to keep telemedicine growing in Texas after COVID-19 with ‘pay parity’ bill

Physicians and patients like the convenience the practice brought during pandemic, but health plans say mandating reimbursement rates would interfere with its negotiated rates. Read Article

Providers try to address mounting delays in care as pandemic stretches on

Like many primary-care physicians across the country, Dr. Trevor Huber is using telehealth to triage patients for COVID-19 symptoms. Read Article

Here are some ideas to steal from this year’s Top 100 Places to Work winners

Good things can happen in bad times, and many of our winners say the creative ways they discovered to keep close while staying distant are worth keeping, even post-pandemic. Read Article

Bringing Primary Care to Southern Dallas

The Catalyst Community Foundation aims to extend care to high-risk communities and attack health inequity upstream. Read Article