http://www.eurekalert.org Announcement made at meeting of Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative More than a dozen specialty health care organizations today joined the four major primary care physicians’ professional groups to endorse the seven-point Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). The PCMH offers the benefits of a personal physician with a whole-person orientation who […]

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board http://www.sun-sentinel.com ISSUE: Fewer doctors available to deliver babies. Doctor shortages are getting worse in South Florida due to a double-whammy, the exorbitant cost of malpractice insurance and low medical reimbursements. Obstetricians and gynecologists are disappearing, leaving expectant mothers in a lurch at a time when their health and the safe […]

Annemarie Franczyk http://buffalo.bizjournals.com Demand for primary doctors in New York state has caught up to the critical need for specialists, according to a recent study from the Center for Health Workforce Studies at University at Albany‘s School of Public Health. As a result, new primary care physicians reported an increasing number of job offers and […]

Investor’s Business Daily delivered by Newstex http://money.cnn.com You’ve no doubt had the experience of paying for car repairs that were done wrong. Not only did you pay for the faulty repair, you also paid to fix the error. Health insurers have faced the same problem, paying for medical mistakes and the consequences of those mistakes. […]

By Rob Hotakainen http://www.azstarnet.com WASHINGTON — Congress is under pressure to remedy a national doctor shortage that could worsen on July 1, when physicians who treat Medicare patients get a 10 percent pay cut. One-third of the nation’s active doctors — or roughly 250,000 — are over 55 and likely to retire in the next […]

BY ROB HOTAKAINEN AND ANDI ATWATER http://www.kansas.com Congress is under pressure to fix a national doctor shortage that could worsen on July 1, when physicians who treat Medicare patients will get a 10 percent pay cut. Some say the situation is dire. One-third of the nation’s active doctors — or roughly 250,000 of them — […]

BY DAVID RUNK • ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.freep.com Universities and hospitals across Michigan are working to head off an impending doctor shortage fueled by the nation’s aging baby boomer population. The state’s first new medical school in four decades is set to open in 2010, and existing schools are expanding their campuses and admitting bigger classes. […]

By Mike King http://www.ajc.com Georgia’s Republican legislators held it together on the last day of the session just long enough to push through two measures that they claim will stimulate competition in the state’s health care marketplace. State legislative leaders, borrowing from the health care playbook of GOP think tanks, contend that consumers will benefit […]

http://www.kaisernetwork.org At a meeting with physicians on Friday, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) outlined a package of Medicare legislation that would delay for 18 months a 10% Medicare physician payment cut that is scheduled to take effect July 1, CQ Today reports. The measure would prevent the cuts until 2010 and could also […]