Healthcare Finance News June 21, 2021
Both primary care and specialist medicine are facing potentially severe shortfalls over the next decade and a half.
Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was never going to be an easy proposition for the healthcare industry, but efforts to bounce back are complicated by an ongoing shortage of physicians, which is poised to worsen over the next decade-plus.
Data published by the Association of American Medical Colleges shows the U.S. could see an estimated shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, including shortfalls in both primary and specialty care.
Conducted for the AAMC by the Life Science division of IHS Markit, a global information company, The analysis was conducted in 2019, prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic....
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