As the health industry focuses on COVID-19, there has been a big drop in nonurgent visits for primary care and specialty care. Medical practices are being forced to furlough or lay off staff.
Amid the COVID-19 epidemic, there has been a steep drop in patients seeking nonurgent primary care and specialty care.Amid the COVID-19 epidemic, there has been a steep drop in patients seeking nonurgent primary care and specialty care.Just three weeks ago, Dr. Kathryn Davis worried about the novel coronavirus but not about how it might impact her group of five OB-GYNs who practice at a suburban hospital outside Boston.
"What we're trying to do is piece together a solution to get through the crisis and keep employed as many people as we can," said Atrius CEO Dr. Steve Strongwater. It's not clear whether that money will stop the tide of layoffs and lost pay at hospitals as well as in doctors' offices. A Harvard Medical School physicians group will suspend retirement contributions starting April 1., the second-largest hospital network in Massachusetts, announced executive pay cuts on Thursday.
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