About 3 in 10 people who received medical services between 2016 and 2022 didn’t see a primary care provider, though that portion ranged anywhere from 16% to 43% depending on the state, according to an ...

Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado. “If someone’s in labor, they’ll show up. If someone ...

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation. Substantial disparities between what primary care ...

People are shifting away from traditional primary care providers, with about three in 10 foregoing primary care altogether between 2016 and 2022, according to FAIR Health's new analysis of private ...

Fewer clinicians are entering into the primary care field, and investments in primary care are on the downswing, finds a new report from the American Academy of Family Physicians and Milbank Memorial ...

"You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn't going to see you anymore." That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in ...

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...

Clinicians who provide “direct primary care” (DPC) and their patients are gaining a major windfall from the recently passed federal budget reconciliation legislation. Thanks to the “Big Beautiful ...

CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — David Carlbert starts every morning by testing his blood sugar and taking his blood pressure. The 68-year-old has diabetes and other chronic pain issues, but as of January, ...

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