Average annual salary of a PCP in Connecticut

So what happened to the law of supply and demand?

Normally, as some doctors quite, the rest would raise there fees, not accept the low reimbursements offered by the insurance companies, opt out of Medicare, etc, and become a viable businesses again.

Is it that doctors are not businessmen enough to do that?

Is it that they feel too guilty to charge their patients fair fees?

Is it that primary care doctors aren’t really needed and don’t have much actual market value?

Are primary care doctors being pushed out by non-physician providers?

One problem is that this is not the average annual salary of a PCP in COnnecticut. The way it is worded in the article is, “it’s fairly typical”. This is one anecdote again being used as if it is a fact by Kevin. Not even the biased author of this commentary, which Kevin tries to suggest is a news article, is willing to be that dishonest. (“Matthew C. Katz is the executive director of the Connecticut State Medical Society.”)

Here’s one link that indicates that that Connecticut’s legislature research office doesn’t believe that this is anything close to the average. For a change, they have facts rather than anecdotes.

http://www.cga.ct.gov/2003/rpt/2003-R-0297.htm

Each year, it’s harder for Volpintesta to stay in business. His malpractice insurance costs $15,000. His annual salary is $75,000. That’s not a typo – it’s fairly typical for a primary care physician in Connecticut.

Hardly a glowing piece of scientific endeavor but more along the lines of single example alarmism. Perhaps it is time to leave primary care to the NPs and PAs and have the others move into purely specialty fields.