primary care physicians

Politicians keep talking about fixing primary care shortages. But flawed national data leaves big holes in how to evaluate which policies are effective.

The declining share of U.S. doctors in adult primary care is about 25% — a point beyond which many Americans won’t be able to find a family doctor at all.

Many primary care practitioners will be a little poorer next year because of the expiration of a health law program that has been paying them a 10 percent…

Adjusting medications before someone gets sick enough to visit the doctor. Updating outside specialists so one doctor's prescription doesn't interfere…

The Florida House passed a huge bill full of controversial health issues on Friday shortly after lunch, sending it on to a Senate that may not be…

A Florida House committee will take up a bill Monday that would give nurse practitioners more independence and authority to provide medical services…

A temporary raise in Medicaid pay for primary care physicians -- part of the Affordable Care Act that covered 2013 and 2014 -- will end in 2015, which…

Primary-care physicians who treat Florida Medicaid patients are eligible for a big, fat retroactive bonus thanks to the Affordable Care Act -- as long as…

Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., is spending $100 million to open a medical school in the fall. Its goal is to have more than 50 percent of its graduates go into primary care.