MedPage Today October 4, 2019
– Services from non-physician providers likely one of the reasons
WASHINGTON — The number of internal medicine residents who decide to become hospitalists instead of outpatient primary care physicians (PCPs) has been increasing, but that doesn’t seem to have affected Medicare beneficiaries’ access to primary care, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) were told.
The share of third-year medical residents who planned to become hospitalists increased rapidly from 2010 to 2018, rising from 9% to 19%, Carolyn San Soucie, research assistant at MedPAC, said Thursday. Conversely, the percentage who planned to go into general internal medicine dropped from 23% to 11% during the same period. The percentage who planned to become subspecialists stayed roughly the same, going from...
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