Western Massachusetts, a patchwork of rural communities and low-income cities, is a difficult place to find a primary care doctor if you don't already have one. Frustrated patients often turn to ...

As costs increase, primary care practices are joining forces in Independent Physician Associations. The goal is to leverage better insurance... Primary care is in trouble. Doctors are banding together ...

Valley Medical Group, a prominent primary care practice in western Massachusetts, has been struggling financially, but the doctors there didn't want to sell the practice to a hospital system. Instead ...