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.
|Slideshows|February 25, 2020
Is the U.S. prepared for COVID-19?
Author(s)Jeffrey Bendix, Senior Editor, Logan Lutton
Experts in the healthcare industry weigh in on the cornonavirus disease and the overall preparedness of the U.S.
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The rapid worldwide spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has focused attention on the U.S.’s ability to respond to it. InCrowd, a provider of data analytics to the pharmaceutical industry, recently surveyed 150 primary care and pediatric physicians and emergency medicine/critical care specialists on their perceptions of COVID-19 and the ability to respond to it. Highlights of their findings follow.
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