AMA: Internal Medicine, Family Medicine Show Highest Percentage of Hospital Employment

Growing physician employment is a concern for ambulatory surgery centers as possible referral sources are absorbed hospitals. A recent study conducted by the American Medical Association has found that single-specialty practice physicians most likely to be employed by hospitals are in internal medicine (45.1 percent) and family practice (37 percent), according to an AAFP report.

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Overall, the study found that 53 percent of physicians were self-employed in 2012. Though hospital employment is a growing trend, physician independence has not grown to be an entirely scare commodity.

 

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