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PHYSICIANS ARE STILL GR AVITATING
TOWARD HOSPITAL EMPLOYMENT.
Hospital Employment Trend Continuing
BY STEVE BARRETT
REPORT FINDS
FROM JULY 2012 to July 2015, the number of U.S. physi-
cians employed by hospitals rose to 141,000, according to
a report released in late 2016 by the Physicians Advocacy
Institute and Avalere Health. That 46,000-physician increase,
from 95,000 in 2012, underscores the trend of increasing
hospital acquisitions of physician practices, according to
the study.
Growth in physician employment by hospitals occurred
across all regions of the United States and during each of the
six-month periods the study evaluated.
Some other findings:
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At the end of the three-year period, almost two in five physi-
cians were hospital-employed, compared with about one in
four who were hospital-employed at the beginning of the study.
+ Ownership of physician practices by hospitals or health
systems grew 86 percent over the course of the study.
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By the end of the study period, physician employment by
hospitals was greatest in the Midwest, at 49 percent, followed
by the Northeast (42 percent), the West (34 percent), the
South (33 percent), and Alaska and Hawaii (27 percent).
Reimbursement issues a nd overhead a re the concerns
that physicia ns cite most of ten about independent prac-
tice, according to a 2015 study by ma nagement consulting
compa ny Accenture.
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