Medical Economics November 7, 2023
Ann Greiner, MCP, Shari Erickson, MPH, Darilyn Moyer, MD, MACP

Patients around the country are being shut out of better health. It’s time to open wide the front door to care.

Primary care in the United States is in crisis, and not enough is being done to address it. Getting timely, high-quality primary care close to home is a real challenge for too many, even when a patient has an established relationship with a primary care professional.

Patients are told to build a relationship with a primary care clinician who gets to know them and their medical history. Yet a decades-long underinvestment in primary care – care that is proven to improve health, health equity and save our health care system money – has led to severe shortages of primary...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, Govt Agencies, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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