Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Primary Care
Primary Care Access Pre-ACA
As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changes roll out, many critics and proponents have voiced concerns about provider availability in the wake of massive increases of insured persons. In fact, recent data suggest that the uninsured rate has already fallen Continue Reading …
Can MLPs lead the care team?
Primary care will be delivered increasingly by non-physician clinicians in the future. How will patients fare? There is an increasing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the United States and it is projected that US medical schools will not Continue Reading …
EHR’s & Physician Productivity
A majority of doctors are dissatisfied with EHRs citing productivity losses. But a new study debunks their feelings. The revolution in health information technology (HIT) holds the promise of improving patient care. Since the passage of the Health Information Technology Continue Reading …
Toward GME Accountability
An analysis of over 750 institutions shows that fewer than one-quarter of doctors train as primary care providers. Dr. Candice Chen and colleagues attempted to assess outcomes of the nearly $10 billion federal Medicare and more than $3 billion federal-state Continue Reading …
Will primary care fail us?
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is set to take place in just over half of the states. Additional private insurance expansions using health insurance exchanges are set to take place in the next 100 days. However, providing health insurance Continue Reading …
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