While also investing in the next generation of doctors. Right now more providers are leaving the field than coming into it causing a shortage. “Primary care is just tough to get people. And we try to ...

Massachusetts faces a primary care physician shortage, despite having a high number of physicians per capita. A new task force aims to address the shortage by increasing primary care spending and ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is deploying a new agenda and strategy meant to shift some of the financial risk of certain payment plans to care providers. In a new strategy ...

This blog reviews how the role of primary care practice has diminished greatly over the past 40 years. When I became a physician in the 1980’s primary care medicine entailed a physician ...

Physician assistants will return to Beacon Hill this year to advocate for the removal of “archaic” requirements that, they say, will make a difference amid the commonwealth’s primary care ...

PROVIDENCE – It's no secret that Rhode Island has a dire shortage of primary care doctors. Estimates of how many doctors the state needs vary widely – from 100 to 260 or more – but the ...

Compared to other states, Massachusetts has "among the lowest shares of physicians working in ... Diagnosis - The Declining Health of Primary Care in MA_0 Primary care spending in Massachusetts ...

BOSTON - Primary care doctors at the Mass General Brigham health care system are filing to unionize. The doctors say that the corporatization of health care, physician access issues, and systemic ...

Nearly 300 primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board indicating their intent to unionize. According to the representation petition ...

In the latest sign of mounting strain on medical workers, nearly 300 primary care physicians employed by Mass General Brigham have notified federal authorities that they want to join a union ...

Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in this field, according to new data from KFF. In contrast, geriatrics ...

The Health Resources and Services Administration estimates that an additional 17,000 primary care providers are necessary to meet U.S. health care needs — and the deficit is expected to grow to ...