Posted on October 7th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Last in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study With global payment contracts and accountable care organizations becoming more prevalent in Massachusetts, we thought it would be important to ask physicians what they thought of these new practice arrangements. About 57 percent of physicians said they were familiar with global [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Fourth in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study Physicians generally love being doctors. It’s the practice of medicine that troubles them. Our 2011 Physician Workforce Study again asked physicians for their opinions on the practice environment, and well as the professional rewards of being a doctor. It’s interesting that [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Third in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study Our 10th annual workforce study suggests that while medical malpractice insurance costs in Massachusetts tend to be higher than national averages, the fear of being sued has a much more dramatic impact on physicians than the actual cost of the insurance. [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2011 by Frank Fortin
Second in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study When the MMS began publishing its physician workforce studies a decade ago, one of the more unsettling findings was the broad reluctance of medical residents to start their careers in Massachusetts. To be sure, there wouldn’t be room for all residents [...]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2011 by Frank Fortin
First in a series of five articles on the 2011 MMS Physician Workforce Study. In a state with 4 medical schools, 2,700 medical students, 398 residency programs and almost 5,500 residents, it might seem logical to conclude that there is no shortage of doctors in Massachusetts. But for the tenth straight year, our physician workforce [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2011 by Lloyd Resnick
Richard Dupee, M.D., a Wellesley-based internist and geriatrician whose practice has about 10,000 patients, is among a dwindling segment of primary care physicians accepting new patients. “It’s a matter of business survival,” explained Dr. Dupee, whose practice accepts several new patients every week, including MassHealth enrollees. “I need to keep [patient] volume up to stay [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Rick Gulla
Here’s a different, but important, look at the impact of physician practices: Massachusetts office-based physicians contribute $31.7 billion in economic output to the state and support 112,000 jobs. Those were some of the findings from a first-of-its-kind analysis done for the American Medical Association by The Lewin Group, a national healthcare policy research and management consulting group based in [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2010 by Frank Fortin
Today, we released our ninth annual Physician Workforce Study, and for the fifth straight year, primary care specialties weighed in with troubling findings. Internal medicine and family practice were judged to be in the “critical” category. Labor shortages in eight other specialties were serious enough to be placed in the “severe” category. What can we [...]
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