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Harvard uses $30M gift to address primary care
Amid concerns that Harvard Medical School--and various other medical schools nationwide, for that matter--haven't been doing enough to promote the importance of primary care , an anonymous gift of $30
Docs agree payment models need to change, but don't want less
A majority of doctors feel that something needs to be done to fix the ailing Medicare reimbursement situation, but very few of those doctors can agree on a remedy, according to the results of a
Primary care to get a $320M booster shot from HHS
In an attempt to bring some relief to the seemingly endless primary-care shortage situation, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this week that $320 million
Help wanted: Hospitals, doctors offices should hire more in the next year
Several factors--most notably an anticipated stabilization of Medicare payments to physicians and the new healthcare reform law--are contributing to many experts' opinions that more jobs at both
HHS outlines $250M investment in primary-care workforce
An aging population, pay disparities and soon, millions of newly insured: It's neither a secret nor a surprise that the U.S. faces a growing shortage of primary-care clinicians. To begin addressing
Dr. Candice Chen: What do we value in our medical schools?
This week, FiercePracticeManagement reported on a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that raised quite a few eyebrows with regards to medical school rankings . The study looked at
Study may debunk theory that health supply breeds demand
Just 13 years ago, health economists thought the United States had too many doctors, which attracted a surplus of patients clamoring for care, thereby driving up health costs. Thus, the Balanced
Throwing money at primary care problem not a fix, physician says
An increase in workload and a decrease in manpower has left the primary-care profession in tatters and near "crisis point," New York Times blogger Pauline Chen, MD, believes. But what can be done to
Poor retention, not just recruitment, contributes to primary care shortage
To resolve shortages, the primary care field not only needs to attract more recruits, but also do a better job retaining them, indicates a new survey published in Journal of General Internal
Primary-care pay gap overwhelms policy changes to make the field more attractive
Over the course of a 43-year career, primary-care physicians earn less than half as much as their counterparts in cardiology, while physicians in 13 other specialties dwarf their incomes even more,
