Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth? | Zendy

Michael E. Chernew | Zendy; Lindsay M. Sabik | Zendy; Amitabh Chandra | Zendy; Joseph P. Newhouse | Zendy

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Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?

Author(s) -

Michael E. Chernew,

Lindsay M. Sabik,

Amitabh Chandra,

Joseph P. Newhouse

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

health affairs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837

H-Index - 178

eISSN - 2694-233X

pISSN - 0278-2715

DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.28.5.1327

Subject(s) - workforce , primary care , health spending , primary health care , point (geometry) , health care , medicine , family medicine , business , demographic economics , public economics , economics , economic growth , health insurance , geometry , mathematics

Spending on health care in markets with a larger percentage of primary care physicians (PCPs) is lower at any point in time than is true in other markets. The relationship between physician workforce composition and the rate of spending growth is less clear. This analysis of market-level Medicare spending data between 1995 and 2005 reveals that the proportion of PCPs is not associated with spending growth. Additional research is needed before the potential causal impact of PCPs can be fully assessed. However, these findings suggest that changes in the composition of the physician workforce will not be sufficient to address spending growth.

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