CHQPR April 30, 2021
It often seems as if Americans disagree about everything, but there is one thing that everyone appears to agree on: the need for a better way to pay primary care physicians. Unfortunately, more than a decade of consensus about the need for payment reform hasn’t resulted in any significant improvement in the way most primary care practices in the country are actually paid. Because of the failure to make meaningful changes, there is a large and growing shortage of primary care physicians in the country, many primary care physicians are burning out, and most medical students don’t want to go into primary care.
The biggest improvement in decades happened one year ago when Medicare and health insurance plans started paying...