The primary care workforce is dwindling. Healthcare professionals in the United States are avoiding primary care for a multitude of reasons. Whether it be the excessive administrative burden, high rates of burnout, low reimbursement rates, or medical education emphasizing specialization, people are rapidly abandoning primary care. The lack of primary care clinicians creates large primary care deserts, especially in rural areas. Several state and federal programs attempt to offer incentives, to hopefully motivate people to pursue careers in primary care. However at this point, the discrepancy remains.
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Psychiatry and Primary Health Care: Beyond Integration, Toward Fusion? | Psychiatric Times | July 27, 2016 |
Are You Kidding Me? We Need More Primary Care Physicians | American Academy of Family Physicians | March 19, 2019 |
Fewer Americans Report a Personal Physician as Their Usual Source of Health Care | The Robert Graham Center | December 15, 2015 |
Nurse Practitioners in the PCMH | Advance Healthcare Network | December 21, 2015 |
Focusing on Primary Care for Better Health | CMS Blog | July 7, 2016 |
Report: Minnesotans spent nearly $2 billion on preventable health care | Inforum | July 23, 2015 |
Without primary care doctors, 9,000 Oregon Health Plan patients forced to use urgent care, emergency rooms | The Register-Guard | July 26, 2015 |
Medicaid: Less money, lower reimbursement rates? | Decatur Daily | June 28, 2015 |
As You Were Saying...Finding care, close to home | The Boston Herald | June 27, 2015 |
Student loan forgiveness programs driving physicians to primary care | EurekAlert! | March 26, 2019 |