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For US adults in general, those with a primary care physician rather than a specialist as their personal physician live longer and have lower health care costs.

Source: Franks P, Fiscella K. Primary care physicians and specialists as personal physicians. Health care expenditures and mortality experience. J Fam Pract 1998; 47(2):105-109.