Another 23 percent said between 75 percent and 99 percent of the physicians in their integrated organizations were directly employed. Only 18 percent said fewer than 25 percent of the physicians in their integrated organization were directly employed.
Most surgeon respondents — around 81 percent — said around 75 percent to 100 percent of the directly employed physicians in the integrated organization worked full time. This isn’t necessarily a new trend, however; more than half said they’d been directly employed for 10 years or more.
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