” he says.Medicaid managed care and Medicaid fee-for-service have the most severe shortages of primary care physicians because rates are the lowest, Copeland says, making it hard for physicians to build a robust practice that has a significant Medicaid population.For example, some exchange ...
In Nevada, like many other states, addressing physician shortages is directly dependent on GME. The limited opportunities for GME in the state — in terms of both total number of funded positions and the breadth of specialty training slots available — means most of our medical school graduates ...
4 Ways Medical Offices Can Prepare for the Physician Shortage: Prepare for physician shortages with these 4 key strategies for medical offices.
Latino physicians are vital to addressing the nation’s physician shortages and providing culturally competent care. Policies that cancel DEI initiatives disproportionately affect minority premedical students, medical students, residents, and physicians, creating barriers to diversifying and growing the health...
State governments, which operate the Medicaid and CHIP programs, can also help encourage hospitals to train physicians by offsetting costs. If policymakers do not take steps to address the impending physician shortages, hospitals will likely see financial repercussions. ...
Current and aspiring physician assistants rallied inside the Massachusetts State House before lobbying lawmakers to relax physician supervision requirements to help ease primary care workforce shortages in the state.Lane Turner/Globe Staff Hundreds of current and aspiring ...
Workforce shortages are being reported for many specialities. Workforce problems are also present for nurses, pharmacists and medical technologists. So increasing use of general internists and mid-level providers may not exist as a solution. Transplant physicians must be actively engaged in the medical...
Replication of this model strategically addresses provider shortages, burnout, and enhances patient satisfaction, clinical outcomes, and health care access. As a team, the advancement of progressive pharmacy practice, while also providing robust education to the future generation of pharm...
The psychological and physical impact on physicians and other providers is quite clear, however, and the impact on the physician workforce (where large shortages are projected) is yet another cause for concern. We have all heard the airplane safety announcement remind us to “Please put on your...
making it the only top-10 medical school to do so. School officials described the initiative as a "moral imperative" designed to address "both physician shortages and diversity." Other schools have reduced the duration of their programs from four years to three in a bid to make medical educat...