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Learn More »Any form of health care reform likely will result in more individuals having some form of insurance coverage. As many as 46 to 47 million uninsured individuals may have insurance coverage under health care reform. With many areas of the country already without sufficient primary care provider capacity, how will the system react? Will the lines at Emergency Departments at hospitals be longer like in Massachusetts after it enacted its own form of health care reform? Will more primary care physicians, like those in San Francisco, seek to be concierge providers further exacerbating the shortage?
A likely unintended consequence of health care reform is greater difficulty in accessing primary care services. The concept of every individual in the U.S. having a medical home is laudatory, but just how will this happen when there already is a shortage of primary care capacity? Early retirement by physicians and lack of sufficient nursing school teachers does not help the situation.
Compliance officers should be prepared to address many of the following unintended consequences that health care reform likely will bring as a result of a probable increasing primary care shortage. Read More
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