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
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