Posted on November 2, 2009 23:41
Categories: Medicaid | Medicare | Employer and Individual Insurance
Topics: Managed Care | Medicaid | Medicare | Providers | Spending
The Center for Studying Health System Change and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released this report presenting key findings from the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey. The report notes that physicians derived nearly half of their revenue from public sources, with 31 percent coming from Medicare and 17 percent from Medicaid. The report also provides information on charity care, managed care contracts, acceptance of new patients, and a variety of other physician-related data.
From the report:
This Data Bulletin presents findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey, a nationally representative mail survey of U.S. physicians providing at least 20 hours per week of direct patient care. The sample of physicians was drawn from the American Medical Association master file and included active, non-federal, office- and hospital-based physicians. Residents and fellows were excluded, as well as radiologists, anesthesiologists and pathologists. The survey includes responses from more than 4,700 physicians, and the response rate was 62 percent. Estimates from this survey should not be compared to estimates from HSC’s previous Community Tracking Study (CTS) Physician Surveys because of changes in the survey administration mode from telephone to mail, question wording, skip patterns, sample structure and population represented.
Full report: A Snapshot of U.S. Physicians: Key Findings from the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Survey (PDF | 423.56 KB)
Center for Studying Health System Change. (2009). A snapshot of U.S. physicians: key findings from the 2008 health tracking physician survey. Data Bulletin 35.
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