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A national survey of 465 direct primary care physicians upends the $77-per-month benchmark and much of what the model was assumed to look like.
Another year of Medicare cuts, with Anders Gilberg of MGMA
Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.
Better care, shorter careers for women physicians, with Lisa Rotenstein, M.D., MBA, M.Sc.
Female physicians leave clinical practice at a median age of 49, compared with age 64 for their male colleagues, and the practice patterns patients value most may be part of what drives them out.
What most physicians get wrong about direct primary care, with Josh Umbehr, M.D.
Most physicians know the direct primary care pitch; whether the economics hold up once you're in it is the more difficult question to answer.
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