Primary Care

Healio Primary Care is pleased to announce the creation of its Peer Perspective Board — a group of dedicated experts who will help guide our efforts to provide the latest news and updates that impact daily practice.

Primary care spending made up only 4.67% of total national commercial health care spending in the United States in 2019, down from 4.88% in 2017, a recent report showed.

The Primary Care Collaborative and other nonprofit organizations are taking action to help remove barriers to reforming primary care delivery and payment, according to a presentation at the Primary Care Collaborative’s virtual meeting.

A panel of experts at the Primary Care Collaborative Annual Conference discussed ways to maximize the use of telehealth.

If trends in total and out-of-pocket expenditures continue, Medicaid patients may have increasing difficulty accessing primary care physicians in the future, according to researchers.

The 21st National Primary Care Week is observed through Oct. 9.

With more than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. and the 2020-2021 influenza season about to start, survey data show many primary care clinicians continue to experience financial hardship and fatigue.

Irfan Asif, MD, is a professor and chair in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Emily Barrows, MD, is an assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sharon Brangman, MD, is distinguished service professor and chair of geriatrics, department chief of geriatrics, division chief for the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease and division chief of University Geriatricians at SUNY Upstate Medical University.