Turnover among primary care physicians cost public and private payers $979 million annually, according to a new American Medical Association-backed study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Healthcare Dive reports
About $260 million of those excess costs are attributable to burnout spurring physicians to leave the field, the study, which is based on pre-pandemic data, found. The costs are incurred when primary care physicians leave and patients lose continuity of care. For example, Medicare beneficiaries spend an additional $189 within the first year of losing a primary care provider due to greater use of specialty, urgent and emergency care services, according to the study. Read more.
