{"id":329712,"date":"2025-12-04T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:19:16","slug":"mass-primary-care-doctors-are-switching-between-rival-hospital-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329712\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass. primary care doctors are switching between rival hospital systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six primary care providers at a single Mass General Brigham practice are moving to rival Beth Israel Lahey Health in January, raising to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/11\/20\/business\/brigham-and-womens-hospital-beth-israel-mgb-doctors\/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">at least 18<\/a>\u00a0the total number of such defections from the state\u2019s largest health care system to the second largest in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>The move, the latest development in the two institutions\u2019 fierce rivalry, is expected to cost MGB millions of dollars in revenue. It also represents another symbolic blow to the health system, which has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/05\/29\/business\/mass-general-brigham-primary-care-doctors-union-trump-nlrb\/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">under fire from some of its own primary care physicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s relatively unusual for people to change affiliations at all, and particularly from the dominant market player to the second-biggest market player,\u201d said Paul Levy, who served as chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 2002 to 2011. \u201cYou want to look into why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 plus in-depth analysis, newsletters, premium events, and news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six primary care providers at a single Mass General Brigham practice are moving to rival Beth Israel Lahey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253,9447,21450,28293,248],"class_list":["post-329712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-patients","tag-physicians","tag-stat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}