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Primary care compensation growth outpacing other specialties

Health Care Dive

Primary care doctors have particularly benefited from CMS coding tweaks in 2021, according to a new survey. The gains could help narrow the compensation gap between primary care physicians and other specialties.

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Naturopathic doctors: Underutilized partners in public health and primary care

Healthy Debate

Naturopathic doctors (NDs) have an important role to play in the health-care system. We need a pilot project to assess the viability of ND integration into team-based primary care models.

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Newer primary care disrupters constrain already limited supply of clinical providers, new analysis finds

Fierce Healthcare

As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained. | As new primary care models, including retail health clinics, continue to scale, the national supply of clinical providers will become even more constrained.

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare It News

The participating primary care practices, all part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s clinical research network, were either general, family, ambulatory internal medicine, preventive medicine or geriatric medicine practices. They self-identified their point of maturation.

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Most primary care telehealth visits don't require in-person follow-up, Epic study shows

Healthcare It News

To explore the efficacy of primary care telehealth, a recent Epic Research study examined the frequency of in-person physician visits that followed 18,636,522 primary care telemedicine appointments. "Americans are having a harder time securing an appointment with a doctor than 10 years ago," he pointed out.

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Survey: 1 in 3 patients comfortable with AI-led primary care

Healthcare It News

Nearly one-third (32%) of people already say they would be comfortable with artificial intelligence leading a primary care appointment, according to a new survey from Outbreaks Near Me – although fewer (25%) would be comfortable with AI-led therapy Twelve percent of adults in the U.S.

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Telehealth has been key for primary care, but clinicians are still feeling hopeless

Healthcare It News

Green Center and the Primary Care Collective found that telemedicine has been vital to maintaining patient access to services for almost two-thirds of primary care clinicians – and many providers worry what will happen if pre-pandemic regulations are restored. "Primary care is resilient but has weakened.