Richard Payerchin

Consolidation and lack of competition create risk of higher prices for patients.

A new physician is surprised at requests for prescription painkillers.

Local level data needed to understand gaps in services, analyst says.

Lack of providers, stigma are barriers to seeking needed care, but meaningful conversations can help.

A ‘Tale of Two Cities’ off Interstate 65

If more screening creates more demand, these cities rank above the national average.

MGMA releases annual member survey on processes that take time away from patient care.

Offering financial education helps patients understand what they owe, why, and when.

Working from home offers flexibility for staff, gateway for cyberattacks.

Physicians should consider legalities as scope of practice laws change around the country.

Recognizing it’s a problem is first step to making changes that help workforce, patients and the bottom line.

Pay is important, but culture is crucial for recruiting and retaining staff.

Provider population not keeping up with general population growth in some parts of the country.

The Physicians Foundation remains committed to supporting primary care physicians and to improving a sometimes toxic work environment in medicine.

Feds to revise questions about COVID-19 effects on jobless rate and will ask about telework.

Pre-pandemic survey examines effects of heart disease, asthma, and more.

A large, complex health care system takes a long time to change with actions from multiple people.

Physician recounts work with patients struggling with opioid addiction, HIV.

Survey examines differences between low-income adults at ages 64 and 66.

Physicians, nurses, other staff facing growing number of threats.

Unsupported claims could lead to license suspensions, revocations.

Finding, providing and paying for the best mental health services for physicians is a complicated topic, but there is an easy way to help.

Programs will add community health workers, nurses in primary care, other specialties, and public health.

The 2022 Physicians Foundation survey found 80% of physicians feel there is stigma attached to physicians seeking mental health care.

HHS Inspector General examines process for getting drugs to patients and to market quickly.

The worst state is more than double the national average for health insurance coverage.

Physician burnout is “very disturbing,” “quite worrisome,” and “a crisis” in U.S. health care, according to three leaders of the Physicians Foundation.

Figures strengthen resolve but don’t offer context for complex issue, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention says.

Health care systems will change when more leaders realize how expensive it is to replace physicians who leave because of poor workplace conditions.

International study examines intertwined effects as problem approaches global crisis.