Health Affairs

Primary Care Workforce Data And The Need For Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority

For the past six years, we have tracked primary care workforce numbers, comparing the annual primary care residency match data with the primary care nurse practitioner (NP) graduation rates. The ...
Health Affairs

Valuing Cognitive Effort In Primary Care: Rebalancing Medicare Physician Payment

Primary care providers in the United States are in short supply leading to reduced access to preventive and longitudinal care. A recent survey shows that wait times at primary care have increased ...
The Hill

The US has a primary care shortage — scope of practice reform can help

The staggering costs and time commitment to medical education push aspiring physicians to pursue more lucrative specialization rather than practice primary care. Increasing physician specialization is ...
Berkshire Eagle

Advanced practice providers like physician's assistants and nurse practitioners play critical role in primary care

April is National Interprofessional Health care Month, which celebrates the various levels of clinicians collaborating within an interprofessional team model for care, and which includes physicians ...