It sucks when insurance changes, whether via employer, insurance company, or provider. Some insurance companies are a nightmare for providers to work with and they have to make the hard decision to discontinue their contracts. It is a business decision that they know will affect a segment of their patients, but one they make usually after years of hassling and coming out financially behind. It is hard not to take it personally, to think if he really cared about me he would keep taking the insurance. Try to remember you are in a pool of patients when it comes to insurance dealings, and your pdoc can't pick and choose.

Group practices function differently, but in my experience, each doctor has to set his own contracts with various insurance carriers. It really is your insurance carrier failing you here, not your pdoc. I'm sure he would much rather keep his existing patients as long as he could have a good working relationship with their insurance companies.