Bain & Company October 16, 2025
By Erin Morrissette, MD and Cate Miller Goldstein

Health system executives share their strategic priorities for transforming primary care—and what keeps them up at night.

As they transform primary care models, health system leaders are most worried about persistent labor challenges

Top strategic priorities for transforming primary care in the next 5–7 years

Top strategic concerns for the next 10 years

A recent Bain survey shows that most health system executives share the goal of transforming primary care. They want to add practices and employ more primary care physicians, often while moving toward value-based models. But getting there won’t be easy.

Health system leaders’ top strategic priority is physician recruitment and retention, according to our survey. Yet workforce shortages are the No. 1 concern keeping leaders up at...

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