Chief Healthcare Executive March 17, 2025
Fewer doctors are entering primary care and investments are insufficient. Ripley Hollister of The Physicians Foundation outlines the problems and remedies.
Ripley Hollister, MD, has been practicing medicine since the mid-1980s, when Ronald Reagan was president and MTV played music videos all the time.
Hollister loves being a primary care physician, but he says it’s become much harder. When he first began practicing, he had a group of patients with various medical needs, but he says the reimbursements were sufficient. That’s no longer the case, he says.
“There is a systemic under-investment in primary care that makes those kinds of quality caring physician-patient relationships more and more difficult as reimbursements decline,” he says. “I think that things can be done,...
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