The biggest scarcity will be in primary-care physicians, Hoven said, thanks to better insurance coverage for preventative care.
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Aetna said around 30% of its network's primary-care physicians are already eligible for its new bonuses, and the number is growing rapidly.
Jeff Brenner, meanwhile, is seeking to lower health-care costs for all of Camden, by getting its primary-care physicians to extend the hot-spot strategy citywide.
TeenScreen says requests for screening questionnaires have almost tripled over a two-year period to 426, 000 in 2010, and have come from schools, primary-care physicians and managed-care organizations.
She and her team surveyed some eight hundred primary-care physicians from high-cost cities (such as Las Vegas and New York), low-cost cities (such as Sacramento and Boise), and others in between.
If dementia is confirmed, the center's nurse practitioners, social workers and care managers work closely with family caregivers and primary-care physicians to customize care plans, reviewing medications to reduce the use of drugs that can be harmful to older brains.
In talking up Rocky Vista, Tien, 53, who came to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1964, speaks often of the need in the U.S. for more primary care physicians--most osteopathic physicians practice primary care.
Bristol is undergoing big changes, apparently moving away from the mass market--primary care physicians--that has traditionally been one of the most important for drug giants.
The forward-looking primary care physicians leading the revolution are thrilled that they are rewarded not on their skills at coding billing forms properly but about a partnership with their patients.
Primary-care doctors, such as pediatricians and family physicians, often make less than half of what top-paid specialists like orthopedic surgeons earn, and the idea of changing how they are paid has been around for years.
Forty-four percent of primary care physicians believe that Obamacare was a move in the right direction as compared to 39 percent who do not.
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Experts say it is increasingly important for patients to lock in a primary-care doctor soon because of expected increased demand for physicians starting in 2014, when the new federal health-overhaul law will add millions of people to the health-insurance rolls.
As in many primary-care offices, the staff had two physicians and two nurse practitioners.
The country then made changes to strengthen the quality and availability of outpatient primary-care services (including payments to encourage physicians to provide e-mail access, off-hours consultation, and nurse managers for complex care).
The reforms will also move funding and patients toward primary care physicians instead of high-cost specialists and toward community care instead of expensive institutions, through technical supports, grants and financing for high-cost items such as health information technology.
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The Obama Kremlin, er, White House, claims its clandestine doctor survey was simply a fact-finding mission to determine possible shortages among primary care physicians.
Among its many virtues, according to the survey, the state boasts a high percentage of residents with health insurance, high per-capita public health funding and ready availability of primary care physicians.
Graduates of foreign medical schools now make up more than 25% of all U.S. practicing physicians and about half of primary-care doctors because U.S. graduates tend to prefer more lucrative specialties.
Through the Independence at Home demonstration, the ACA will pay physicians and nurse practitioners to provide home-based primary care to targeted chronically ill individuals for a three -year period.
Retainer-based direct primary care is exploding around the country providing an alternative for primary care physicians to the insurance bureaucracy laden model most practice in.
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Meanwhile because of declining reimbursements, primary care physicians be forced see as many patients as possible each day in hurried 10-15 minute appointments, simply to make ends meet.
Other physicians (those who do not fit into the categories of primary care, non-surgical specialist or surgical specialist) are overwhelmingly supportive of the notion that the ACA was a good beginning by a ratio of 68-32.
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Robert Flores, the group's medical director of population health management, says primary care physicians use the team to help them manage patients at high risk of hospitalization or re-hospitalization who can't easily get to a doctor's office.
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