Undervalued Primary Care Threatens Access to Health Care in the United States
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013
LEAWOOD, Kan., Aug. 14 -- The American Academy of Family Physicians issued the following news release:
Access to high quality, coordinated health care requires an adequate primary care workforce -- something the United States doesn't have as a result of the payment system for primary care services. Faced with a payment system that fails to recognize and pay for the complexity and intensity of modern primary medical care, medical students have turned away from primary care, opting . . .
Access to high quality, coordinated health care requires an adequate primary care workforce -- something the United States doesn't have as a result of the payment system for primary care services. Faced with a payment system that fails to recognize and pay for the complexity and intensity of modern primary medical care, medical students have turned away from primary care, opting . . .