Medscape March 2, 2022
Turnover in primary care leads to nearly $1 billion a year in excess healthcare expenditures, of which an estimated $260 million is attributable to physician burnout, researchers have found.
The analysis, led by the American Medical Association (AMA) and published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, is based on a prepandemic estimate of annual turnover of 11,339 primary care providers. Burnout-related turnover was estimated to affect 3006 of those practitioners.
“Turnover of primary care physicians is costly to public and private payers, yet there is an opportunity to decrease unnecessary healthcare expenditures by reducing burnout-related turnover,” Christine Sinsky, MD, the lead author of the study and the AMA’s vice president for professional satisfaction, told Medscape Medical News. “Physician burnout is preventable, and...
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