New AMGA data show medical groups have trimmed clinic staff per provider even as wRVUs and visits keep rising, and physicians are absorbing the difference.
|Articles|October 10, 2011
Patient visits down slightly, but not workload
Although most primary care physicians report being busier than ever, as paperwork and other demands eat up their time, the number of patients they saw overall in 2010 actually was down from previous 2 years.
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