DO, Internal Medicine, PCP and Primary Care

Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

Primary Care

Primary Care Utilities PCP PCP

Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Access to high-quality primary care requires adequate numbers of primary care physicians (PCPs) as well as appropriate clinician panel size. Excess number of patients per clinician has been associated with higher physician burnout and may hinder timely patient access to care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Finance PCP

Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits in 2018.

PCP

PCP PCP Finance Nurse Practitioner

Primary Care Digest

Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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