Nine days after David Hartley said he was diagnosed with a serious allergy, alpha-gal syndrome, he lost the primary care practice he had relied on for about 20 years.
Hartley said he had recently asked Bayview Physicians Group to remove him from Advanced Primary Care Management, or APCM, a Medicare program that allows primary care practices to receive monthly payments for coordinating and managing patients’ care.
He wanted to leave the program, he said, not the practice…