Medical Economics June 29, 2022
Why concierge medicine may be the solution, not the problem
As the pandemic slowly morphs into an endemic, its impact on primary care physicians continues to tug at the seams of an already fraying health care system. Now rising to the top of America’s health care challenges is the looming physician shortage, predicted with increasing urgency every year since the early 2000s. The Association of American Medical Colleges now estimates a shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034, accelerated by a perfect storm of pandemic closures, physician retirements, an aging population and escalating demand for care. Simultaneously, the surging popularity and predicted of concierge medicine practices, characterized by intentionally small patient panels, appears to be intensifying the issue.
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