Integration & Physician Issues

Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages.

Primary care physicians are the gateway to more expensive specialists, and health systems face intensifying  competition for them thanks to insurers, retailers, investment firms and tech start-ups, Bloomberg reports. 

Healthcare organizations and physicians are under tremendous pressure. In addition to the burden of the pandemic, providers must comply with more regulation and provide an improved patient experience while operating with lower margins. Physicians today have more responsibility and stress…

Physicians in Oklahoma are not prohibited from prescribing unapproved treatments such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine for the off-label purpose of treating COVID-19 patients, the state attorney general's office said Feb. 8. 

As public health experts and political leaders construct off-ramps from the highly regulated highway of COVID-19 safety measures, many physicians are encouraging just as much effort toward on-ramps to guide public health measures when the virus picks up again.

The District of Columbia has the most physicians per 100,000 capita in the country, while Utah has the fewest, according to Kaiser Family Foundation data published Feb. 7.

There are currently 1,061,141 active physicians in the U.S., according to data published by Kaiser Family Foundation Feb. 7.

The national association representing 170,000 physicians will welcome Susan Dentzer as its president and CEO in March.

A Pennsylvania physician accused of prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 has been terminated from Tower Health, PennLive reported Feb. 4.

HHS is making $19.2 million available to support and expand training of primary care physician and dental residents in rural and underserved areas.