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As physicians increasingly migrate to hospital employment, ASCs could experience firsthand the effects of the looming physician shortage. 

Self-employed surgeons outearn their employed counterparts in five major U.S. cities, according to Medscape's online physician salary explorer.

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Physicians are flocking to employed models — almost 70 percent of physicians reported being employed at the end of 2020, with 1 in 5 being employed by corporate entities, according to a report from Avalere. 

The number of multispecialty ASCs jumped 3 percent from 2015 to 2020, according to the most recent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report.

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