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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

North Dakota has the highest percentage of new physicians entering primary care, at 46.6%, double the national average. Despite this heavy workload, primary care physician salaries are 20% lower than other physicians because of an outdated payment system that makes it hard to receive reimbursement for essential services.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I’m a family physician by training. So I became the group pack coordinator and then the physician in charge of my medical office and Mission Viejo. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors. Couldn’t imagine doing anything else.