The survey includes responses from 1,311 physicians.
In the next three years, physicians plan to:
• Continue practicing as I do now — 54.8 percent
• Retire — 14.8 percent
• Move into a different practice — 8.1 percent
• Transition to a direct-pay practice — 7.6 percent
• Close my practice — 4.7 percent
• Join an accountable care organization — 4.4 percent
• Transition to a concierge practice — 4.1 percent
• Leave my practice to become hospital employed — 4 percent
• Become a patient-centered medical home — 3.9 percent
• Merge with other practices — 3.8 percent
• Go into solo practice — 3.8 percent
• Other — 12.9 percent
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