Nearly 17 percent of physicians plan on retiring in the next three years, according to Physicians Practice's 2015 Great American Physician Survey.
The survey includes responses from 1,001 physicians.
In the next three years, physicians plan to:
• Continue practicing as they do now — 59.7 percent
• Retire — 16.9 percent
• Move to a different practice — 7.5 percent
• Transition to a direct-pay practice — 7.4 percent
• Join an accountable care organization — 4.3 percent
• Merge with other private practices — 4 percent
• Become a patient-centered medical home — 3.3 percent
• Close their practice — 3.2 percent
• Leave their practice to become hospital employed — 2.9 percent
• Go into solo practice — 2.4 percent
• Sell their practice and become an hospital employee — 1.7 percent