Paul Schilling, MD, cited those two factors when he decided to retire from his Gainesville, Fla., cancer care practice at age 50.
“I (was) spending an hour to two hours a day with insurance companies reviewing what we want to do with patients’ care, and it’s getting dramatically worse,” he said. “They second-guess us all the time, and it’s kind of insulting.”
Age could be another factor in the state’s physician retirement rates. While the number of practicing physicians in Florida who plan to retire in the next five years has remained at a consistent 13 percent since 2008, the state also has the fifth-largest proportion of physicians older than 60, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges.
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