Becker's Healthcare November 27, 2023
The shift to virtual care isn’t being enabled by technology or patient preference as much as the lack of primary care physicians, Politico reported Nov. 26.
For primary care these days, most patients can expect “routine visits with a rotating cast of nurses and physician assistants with increasingly spare and online checkups with doctors,” the news outlet reported. And Congress and the Biden administration are helping further this transition, in part to make up for the dearth of primary care specialists. Lawmakers, for instance, are seeking to make permanent rules that allow Medicare to pay for virtual appointments.
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