By Matt Fisher – What is the state of primary care physician practices as a result of COVID-19? The answer is at best not clear, but very likely in a bad place. Primary care faced significant stress even before the pandemic, but months of not seeing patients and continuing to be on the front line of care will only compound stresses.
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By Cameron Wood – Most physicians who have been practicing for a few decades remember the days when private payer reimbursements dwarfed Medicare reimbursements. That dynamic has long since flipped, starting with the 2008 recession.
By David Meyers MD & Jeff Brady MD, MPH – It takes a team effort to reduce potentially preventable hospital readmissions. Patients leaving the hospital need tailored education about how to take their medications, whether to get home care services, and when to follow up with their primary care physician.
By Arlene Bierman MD, MS, Cindy Brach, MPP, & Brent Sandmeyer, MPH – Health systems built on a strong foundation of primary care achieve better health outcomes. Healthcare delivery, however, accounts for only 20 percent of population health.
By Bob McNellis, MPH, PA – I was recently recalling a trip to a national conference in Boston where I crossed paths with a fellow physician assistant who was working in a primary care practice. “Becoming a medical home was the hardest thing we ever did…
Medical Group Management Association released its 2018 MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation revealing primary care physicians’ compensation rose by more than 10 percent over the past five years.
By David Harlow – Once the federales blocked the health insurance company mega-mergers, it was only a matter of time before alternative approaches to rearranging the three-dimensional chessboard of the healthcare-industrial complex would emerge.
By Bob McNellis – Three years ago, our objective was to accelerate the dissemination and implementation of patient-centered outcomes research findings by increasing the capacity of primary care practices to find and use the best evidence for care.
By David Hom – Employers offer health insurance to recruit and maintain talent as well as to keep employees healthy and productive. While these benefits might be “priceless,” employers still want to get the best return on their health benefits investments.