Monday, October 7, 2019

Declining growth in primary-care docs has MedPAC worried about access

Declining growth in primary-care docs has MedPAC worried about accessEditor's note: This is an interesting article, but it would have been more helpful if the author had told  his readers that "primary-care physicians" has traditionally meant the specialties of family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found that about 1 in 5 physicians it previously considered primary-care physicians are actually hospitalists—doctors focused on caring for hospitalized patients.

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