Rising Health Care Costs and the Impact on Physicians

As health care costs and premiums in Massachusetts continue to climb, physicians continue to struggle in the current practice environment. Increasing costs in maintaining a practice, high housing to income ratios and rising medical liability premiums are factors to the negative practice environment for physicians.

This MMS white paper examines the impact of the high costs on physicians' satisfaction and their desire to leave medicine and reduce the number of hours they practice.

Download the report. (.pdf, 20 pages)

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