As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more provider groups, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of ...

Primary care physicians looking for a new gig might want to consider looking in a rural area. Not only do many rural areas have significant need for PCPs, but they may also offer the biggest ...

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation. Substantial disparities between what primary care ...

Controlling the growth rate of health care spending is central to the success of the Affordable Care Act or any subsequent reform. Because labor represents more than 50 percent of health care costs ...

Primary care providers in the United States are in short supply leading to reduced access to preventive and longitudinal care. A recent survey shows that wait times at primary care have increased ...

The crippling student loans that burden many medical students may dissuade them from becoming family practitioners or pediatricians. Instead, foreseeing that they will owe about $140,000 at graduation ...

In April, Medicare spewed out some schismatic physician-payment numbers. The blast of decontextualized data said that one ophthalmologist received $12 million in payments. Another 4,000 physicians ...

Doctors in America saw salary increases across most specialties over the past year, but a pay gap for women and black physicians continues to exist. Medscape's 2018 Physician Compensation Report ...

The average inflation-adjusted salary for U.S. physicians decreased by 7% between 1995 and 2003, according to a study scheduled for release on Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change, ...