Modern Healthcare April 2, 2020
Last month, the newly designated CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians issued a dire warning in a single tweet. “The front lines are crumbling,” he wrote. He was talking about the tens of thousands of small primary-care practices across the country. These small businesses, he noted, staples of their communities for decades, desperately “need money for supplies and operations” amid the COVID-19 crisis.
On March 27, President Donald Trump signed a $2 trillion-plus stimulus bill into law. The package provides $290 billion for individual and family payments, more than $25 billion to passenger airlines, $12 billion for housing assistance, but zero funding specifically dedicated to independent medical practices that are on the front lines of the battle against...