Fortunately CMS is rethinking the role of primary care and realizing we can save money if we're able to provide high quality preventive care like we're supposed to. PCP service payments (RVUs) are up 18% since 2020 which has been a long time coming. Unfortunately physician pay is down vs inflation over the last few decades but thank Christ administration salaries are way, way up over the same timeframe.

Agreed.

There’s an argument that more appointment slots means more access but if it’s access to poor quality medicine what’s the point?

Buck wild. Seems like a bad trend for quality care.

On the one hand, yeah holy shit.

On the there, though, eye exams aren't exactly something that couldnt be administered in a group setting to help speed things along a bit

In my ideal world they'd have a machine for it at Walmart like they do blood pressure that just flips the prescriptive lenses in front of you and asks all the same questions, then sends the results to an optometrist to confirm