Growing impediments to the delivery of dermatologic care

Dermatologists provide a model for the delivery of efficient: medical care. Growing regulations consume considerable time and resources that could oth erwise be devoted to direct improvement of patient care. Because of the Lim ited scope of dermatology encounters, regulations and other impediments hav e a disproportionally greater impact on the care of patients with skin dise ase. This article discusses many of the evolving regulations that were init iated ostensibly to improve patient care but that probably have an even gre ater negative impact on physicians' ability to deliver high quality dermato logic care.