[blackdog]

A fee for service physician will not have access to CT scans, ultrasounds of organ function, most radiology services beyond an Xray, dialysis, lab testing, surgery, and so on. Also nobody will insure for malpractice liability if the doctor has no admitting priveleges.

It's like hiring a lawyer who is not allowed to practice law before the court, only instead of a civil matter of well being, it's your life.

[Still Thinking]

You do realize you can walk into a test lab and get all that stuff, and FAR more inexpensively than if provided through whatever practice or hospital the doctor works at.