News|Videos|April 23, 2025

Rural health is losing doctors: Policies have accelerated loss of independent physicians

Reviewing the state of rural health care with the Physicians Advocacy Institute CEO Kelly Kenney, JD.

Medicare and Medicaid have been influential on consolidation across the health care business landscape. Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI) CEO Kelly Kenney, JD, discusses these influences and policies that could improve patient access to physicians in rural areas, in conversation about PAI’s new report, “Rural Areas Face Steep Declines in Independent Physicians and Practices."

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