15 Findings From Physician Trends Report

Here are 15 statistics based on Jackson Healthcare's 2012 Medical Practice and Attitude Report.

The survey included questions on physician practices trends, Medicare/Medicaid and the healthcare form law. More than 2,000 physicians completed this survey.

Practice
•    56 percent of physician respondents work in private practice. Of these, 6 percent claim to be leaving due to reimbursement cuts and high overhead costs.
•    The remaining 44 percent work in the hospital setting, in a practice setting owned by a hospital or as locum tenens and independent contractors.
•    Of those not working in private practice, 51 percent reported leaving private practice in the last five years.
•    The majority (84 percent) of respondents plan to continue their careers in medicine through 2013. The remaining 16 percent plan to go part-time, retire or leave medicine.
•    The most common reasons physicians plan to leave medicine in 2012 include economic factors, healthcare reform and fatigue.

Medicare/Medicaid
•    While a majority of surveyed physicians are accepting new patients, only 75 percent said they were accepting new Medicare patients and 64 percent were accepting new Medicaid patients.
•    Mississippi, Texas, California, Oregon and Texas have the highest number of physicians not accepting new Medicare patients.
•    New Jersey, California and Florida have the highest number of physicians not accepting new Medicaid patients.
•    10 percent of physicians are not seeing Medicare patients at all.

Staffing
•    Private physicians are more likely to prefer physician assistants, whereas hospital-employed physicians are more likely to use both physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

Healthcare reform
•    A majority (74 percent) of physician practices are not participating or have no plans to participate in accountable care organizations.
•    The remaining plan to participate (9 percent) or are already participating (17 percent).
•    Overall, physician practices rate the healthcare reform law as a "D."
•    70 percent do not believe the law will curb healthcare costs.
•    61 percent do not believe the law will improve healthcare quality.

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