Federal incentives support the move to larger group practices, and this could mean greater availability of health IT and improved quality of care, wrote Cedric Dark, MD, MPH.
In 2009, 20.8 percent of the Medicare physician population was solo practitioners, and that number fell to 18.6 percent in 2011.
However, this change will also force patients and physicians to cope with less time for personal relationships, which could cause care to suffer.
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