As costs increase, primary care practices are joining forces in Independent Physician Associations. The goal is to leverage better insurance contracts, while ensuring doctors still call the shots.

Two years ago, Bain & Company forecast major shifts in the primary care market as nontraditional players gain traction and grab more market share. The consulting company is holding fast to that ...

With quality measure saturation in value-based contracts, many primary care physicians feel set up to fail. Research conducted at the Providence health system shows primary care physicians are ...

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 ...

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Legacy Health’s primary care providers could be the next to unionize. On Wednesday, a group of 150 workers across the healthcare company’s primary care clinics in Oregon and ...

Primary care is crucial for improving health outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. According to a 2021 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “People in ...

Harvard researchers say the number of doctors leaving traditional primary care to join a private membership model has almost doubled in five years. In the “concierge” model, primary care providers ...