OOS COA for SOM ~ over $82k per year!

[WayOutWestMom]

Texas absolutely does have a shortage of primary care physicians, particularly in rural counties and in low income urban areas.

http://healthcare.dmagazine.com/2015/04/29/statewide-study-illustrates-physician-shortage-across-specialties-in-urban-rural-communities/

The Physician Workforce in Texas: An Examination of Physician Distribution….
Thirty-five Texas counties have no practicing physician and 80 have five or fewer. A total of 158 counties lack a general surgeon. Too, 57 percent of the state’s total practicing physicians (26,620) operate in the five large urban counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Travis, and Bexar despite containing just 44 percent of Texas’ total population. And while more than 2.2 million Texans live in smaller counties that hold 40,000 residents or less, these communities sport just 1,170 physicians—2.5 percent of the total workforce.

In the entire state, 32.5 percent of Texas physicians are in primary care, compared to 35 percent nationally. In the urban counties, just 28 percent of physicians focus on primary care services.