“managing populations: building a sustainable care coordination program through teams” lori a....
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DESCRIPTION
Primary Care Physician Shortage = Excessive Patient Panel Size The average primary care physician panel size is too large for delivering consistently high quality care under the traditional practice model Estimates suggest a PCP would spend 21.7 hours per day to provide all recommended acute, chronic and preventive care for a panel of 2,500 patients The average US PCP panel size is 2300 The decreasing number of physicians entering adult primary care will only increase PCP panel size EMPANELMENT