Incoming AMA president calls for federal legislation to encourage doctors to work in rural areas during a press conference on May 9.
Physicians are leaving healthcare in droves,"not because they don't want to practice…but because the system is making it more and more difficult for them to care for their patients," said Bruce Scott, MD, president-elect of the American Medical Association , at a press conference On May 9 at the National Rural Health Association's Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Rural areas have about one tenth of the specialists that urban areas do, and 65% of rural communities do not have enough primary care doctors, according to federal data. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report last month found that people living in rural areas areScott said the AMA wants Congress to pass legislation to incentivize more physicians to work in rural areas and expand the number of rural and primary care residency spots.
He shared anecdotes about how these issues have affected his private otolaryngology practice in Louisville, Kentucky, a state where more than"A major insurance company that controls over 60% of the private payer market in rural Kentucky offered us…surgical rates less than they paid us 6 years ago," he said.
Scott also noted physicians now spend twice as much time on prior authorizations and other administrative tasks as they do on direct patient care. According to a 2022 AMA survey, 33% of physicians reported that the cumbersome prior authorization process led to aScott, who will be sworn in as AMA president next month, said he experiences the frustration daily.
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