The American Medical Association’s newly released Physician Practice Benchmark Report, published May 29, sheds light on the shifting landscape of physician employment.
While overall private practice ownership continues to decline, significant variation persists across specialties.
Here’s the percentage of physicians in private practice by specialty:
- Cardiology:30.7%
- General surgery: 31.7%
- Emergency medicine: 33.2%
- Pediatrics: 38.1%
- Internal medicine: 38.9%
- Internal medicine subspecialties: 38.9%
- Family practice:42.2%
- All: 42.2%
- Other: 43.6%
- Psychiatry: 45.2%
- OB-GYN: 46.3%
- Anesthesiology: 46.4%
- Radiology: 46.9%
- Surgical subspecialties: 51.2%
- Orthopedic surgery: 54%
- Ophthalmology: 70.4%
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