During the legislative session that ended last week, California’s Senate and Assembly members introduced a suite of bills that aim to expand access to primary care. Although a bill to expand nurse practitioners’ roles didn’t pass, three other measures survived and have moved to Gov. Jerry...
Although there has been a shift toward hospital employment, 53% of physicians were self-employed and 60% of physicians worked in practices that were wholly owned by physicians, a 2012 survey of physicians by the American Medical Association (AMA) shows. The survey, which is cited in a recent...