Healthcare Dive: How to reform Medicare’s physician fee schedule to reprioritize primary care 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 ... With quality measure saturation in value-based contracts, many primary care physicians feel set up to fail.

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Research conducted at the Providence health system shows primary care physicians are ... Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Samuels is the Founder/CEO of Wellworth healthcare advisory firm. Remember the primary care physician of yore?

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The doctor out ... When her doctor died suddenly in August, Tammy MacDonald found herself among the roughly 17% of adults in America without a primary care physician. MacDonald needed to find a new doctor right away. So, you’ve just moved locations. And one of the primary things that you are looking for now is a new primary care physician.

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How then do you find the medical professional who’s supposed to serve that ... 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 specializing ... When her doctor died suddenly in August, Tammy MacDonald found herself among the roughly 17% of adults in America without a primary care physician. MacDonald wanted to find a new doctor right away.