- Mass residents having difficulty getting care rose to 24% from 16% between 2007 and 2008
- 33% of Mass state's primary care doctors now considering changing professions due to dissatisfaction with the current practice
- US Medical students do not choose to enter a primary care specialty due to economics.
- US Medical school debt is 155K on average
- US Average income: family physicians is $173,000, oncologists $335,000, radiologists $391,000 and cardiologists $419,000.
2008 Physician Workforce Study by the Massachusetts Medical Society
- Increase Medicare payments to PCPs
- Loan payment incentives
- Assess new models of payment -medical home incentive, pay providers an additional bonus payment for assuming responsibility for and providing a full range of primary care services.
- Include more control over the type of health care delivered deliver
- Provide incentives to improve quality and outcomes