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The Northeast Georgia Health System is seeking the state's approval to build a medical plaza in Braselton with a 25,000-square-foot ASC, according to The Gainesville Times.

Hospitals employed 49.3 percent of physicians by January 2021, up 5 percent from January 2019. 

The most common nonmedical side gig for physicians is real estate, according to a July 14 report in Medscape.

Here's the number of ASCs, affiliated positions and states with centers for seven of the largest ASC chains:

Merritt Hawkins, a national physician recruitment and healthcare consulting firm, provided the most recruited medical specialties in its "2020 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives and the Impact of COVID-19."

Twenty-one percent of physicians were furloughed or experienced a pay cut during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an April 2020 survey. 

Here are seven details on physician assistant pay in 2021:

Pediatrics and preventive medicine have been among the lowest-earning physician specialties for the past four years. 

The average annual salary for residents is $64,000, according to Medscape's 2021 resident salary and debt report, with compensation increasing for the first six years of the program.

The physician workforce is skewing older, with many set to retire in the next decade and fewer medical students and residents in the current pipeline to take over.