The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care analyzed primary care physician retirement age between 2010 and 2014.
Annals of Family Medicine published the study.
Here are five insights:
1. The researchers found primary care physicians retired at 65 years old, on average, between 2010 and 2014.
2. Four percent of 60-year-old primary care physicians retired compared to 12 percent of 65 year olds.
3. The majority of primary care physicians aged 50 years old were involved in patient care, teaching, research or administration.
4. The 2014 AMA Physician Masterfile revealed 78,000 primary care physicians aged 55 to 80 were still clinically active.
5. The study offers a different view than assumptions that physicians are retiring earlier due to federal regulations.
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