New AMA Data on Physician Practices and Physician Employment
The American Medical Association has just released the results of its 2012 Physician Practice Benchmark Survey. The report indicates 23% of physicians worked in practices that were at least partly...
View Article50 Largest Medical Groups: 2014 Update
SK&A has updated its annual ranking of the largest medical groups based on either office count or the number of physicians in the group. Based on the number of affiliated physicians, the top 5...
View ArticleKey principles & characteristics of an effective hospital medicine group:...
The Society for Hospital Medicine has developed a framework of 10 key principles involving 47 characteristics to guide an assessment of a hospitalist group. An effective group is based on these key...
View ArticleIssues challenging the surgeon of the future
Challenges affecting surgeons today and in the near future are examined in this presidential address before the American College of Surgeons. Here are the challenges: The pace of innovation and change...
View ArticleNational and State Counts of Physicians by Specialty
An updated annual market overview from SK&A provides national and state counts of physicians by 89 different medical specialties and subspecialties. The national number of physicians practice...
View ArticleProjecting the Specialty Clinician Supply: 2010-2025
A new report from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis looks at projected changes in the nation’s supply of specialty and sub-specialty physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician...
View ArticleWhat percent of surgeons admit to more than one hospital?
These are unusual data quantifying the percent of physicians in four different surgical specialties who admit patients to more than one hospital. The data are for calendar year 2012 and are drawn from...
View Article2014 Survey of America’s Physicians: Practice Patterns and Perspectives
The Physicians Foundation is out with its latest biennial survey of physicians in the country, looking at work satisfaction, practice patterns, and other attitudes of over 20,000 survey participants....
View ArticleTop 10 physician specialties that will grow the most by 2025
Growth in Number of Physician Specialists: 2010 to 2025 Important note: This source EXCLUDES primary care physicians. The analysis was for non-primary care specialists only. 64 percent increase:...
View ArticleHOSPITALISTS: How many are there and what is their role?
The term “hospitalist” was coined by Dr. Robert Wachter in the mid-1990s. Today, there are an estimated 44,000 hospitalists in the United States. This is a self-designated specialty, there is not yet...
View ArticleEXTENSIVISTS: 300 patients per physician typical caseload
One trend that has been in effect for some time in the delivery of health care is standardization — in other words, using documented, evidence-based practices. The authors discuss reasons why...
View ArticleEMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS: What is a surgicalist?
Surgicalists are surgical hospitalists, surgeons who provide care to trauma patients and other patients who arrive in the emergency room with immediate need for surgery. This new type of surgical...
View ArticleWORKFORCE: U.S. physician supply and demand projections to 2025 – trends...
This is an analysis of U.S. national supply and demand for doctors published by an authoritative source. Here are some findings: Overall shortfall of between 46,100 to 90,400 physicians by the year...
View ArticlePROJECTIONS: Physician supply and demand in 2025
Physician manpower projections by specialty for the year 2025 have been prepared by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) using 2013 as a baseline year. Here are the projections for...
View ArticlePHYSICIANS: Average salary offers to recruited specialists
For the eleventh consecutive year, family physicians topped the list of Merritt Hawkins’ 20 most requested recruiting assignments, underscoring the continued urgent demand for primary care physicians...
View ArticleCOST OF HEALTH CARE: Specialist visits to hospitalized Medicare patients cost...
What is the cost to the nation to bring in specialists to consult on hospitalized Medicare patients? This question was studied based on analysis of over 700,000 discharges from over 4500 U.S....
View ArticlePHYSICIANS: Cardiovascular surgeons and invasive cardiologists generate the...
The amount of revenue generated by different specialties for the hospitals where they practice is analyzed every three years by Merritt Hawkins, a physician recruiting firm. New data for 2019 edition...
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