Healthcare Finance News March 4, 2024
There has been a 36% jump in the share of U.S. children without a usual source of care and a 21% increase among adults.
The primary care workforce is struggling to meet the population’s demands, and doesn’t receive enough investment despite diminishing supply and growing demand, a new report has found.
Developed by researchers at the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center and co-funded by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation, The Health of US Primary Care: 2024 Scorecard report and data dashboard examine critical measures of primary care performance nationally and across all states.
Despite a rapidly aging population with higher levels of chronic disease, the number of primary care physicians per person has decreased,...