Primary care news and information

WellStar Health System's urgent-care centers and physicians will work with retail clinics in eight Walgreen Co. stores to expand the scope of services available and help manage the treatment of chronic diseases.
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A new MGMA survey finds that more than half of physician practices say they had not yet decided whether they will participate in health plans sold on the new state insurance exchanges.
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While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants in California will be allowed to perform a type of early abortion under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Workplace clinic operator QuadMed announced on Oct. 9 that it will acquire Novia CareClinics within the next 30 days.
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A bipartisan House measure to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax that helps fund the healthcare reform law has been floated as compromise to end the federal government shutdown.
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MemorialCare Health System and UC Irvine Health said Wednesday they will together open a string of primary-care health centers in Southern California.
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As insurance companies have come to dominate healthcare services, frustrated doctors and patients have turned with increasing numbers to a different kind of practice known as concierge medicine.
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The 48 million Americans currently lacking health insurance will have a chance to sign up for medical coverage once Obamacare goes into effect. But will there be enough doctors to care for them?
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Of the more than 8,000 physicians licensed to work in the nation's capital, only 453 of them are primary-care doctors who spend more than 20 hours a week seeing patients, according to a report released Wednesday by the D.C. Board of Medicine.
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