Hospital Employed Physicians vs. Private Practice Physicians

The trend towards hospital employment is obviously increasing, but what does this mean to the individual physicians working with each other regardless of their employment model? Hospital experts predict hospital employment will increase from 10% currently to 25% by 2013, but how will this affect the general medical climate and for private practice physicians and hospital employed physicians working together?

Hospital employment is an increasing trend because many physicians desire to be paid a guaranteed salary and maintain a quality of life outside of practicing. However some physicians still migrate towards a more traditional guarantee or private model and feel they are able to maintain more control of running their own practice, and depending on the specialty, also receive income from other ancillary services.

With this increase in hospital employed physicians, will it widen the gap between private practice physicians? Also, how will the increase in hospital employed positions ultimately affect the hospital's bottom line?

MedScape has published an article referencing how the increase in hospital employed physicians may affect hospital probability as well as the general economy and medical climate, and also how different employment model physicians can work together.


Read the full article in MedScape Today, or click here:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/722058