This paper investigates the consequences that patients face when their regular primary care provider closes down her … practice, typically due to retirement. We estimate the causal impact of closures on patients' utilization patterns, medical … expenditures, hospitalizations, and health plan choice. Employing a difference-in-difference framework, we find that patients who …

individual health risk of the population especially for chronic patients is imminent. The dramatic increase of Covid-19 cases and … of the population concerning their health risk while visiting the physicians, which additionally had an impact on the … practitioner. Additionally, the general practitioners revealed increased concerns about their own and the patients' safety in their …