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25% of Primary Care Doctors Delivered 86% of Medical Care
• 25% of primary care doctors delivered 86% of medical care.
• 25% of specialists on average provided 75% of medical care.
• 16.3% of physicians listed in Medicaid managed care plan provider network directors in a year qualified as ghost physicians (seeing zero Medicaid beneficiaries over the course of the year in an outpatient setting).
• The share of ghost physicians ranged from 13.4% to 24.9% across states.
Source: Health Affairs via Fierce Healthcare, May 5, 2022
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