Addressing The Primary Care Shortage

A new report from the Brookings Institution examines investigate whether and to what extent the ways Medicare pays for physician and hospital services and subsidizes graduate medical education (GME) in teaching hospitals either fosters or acts as an impediment to achieving a mix of specialists and primary care physicians consistent with more effective and efficient delivery of health care 

The report can be obtained at https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Steinwald_Ginsburg_Brandt_Lee_Patel_GME-Funding_12.3.181.pdf.