Insight for the Healthcare Industry
It is part of our ongoing mission to educate clients on the physician shortage and other employment trends facing healthcare organizations across the nation. As part of this mission, Merritt Hawkins provides thought leadership and shared resources to the healthcare recruitment industry. In fact, our company has published or is cited in hundreds of articles appearing in publications such as:
- The Wall Street Journal
- Modern Healthcare
- People Magazine
- Hospitals & Health Networks
- USA Today
- American Medical News
Links to healthcare industry articles relating to the recruitment and employment of physicians and other medical professionals appear below. Merritt Hawkins contributes a great deal of statistical data and anecdotal insight into doctor employment and other healthcare industry staffing trends. Please read this select sample of articles written by our executives or citing our healthcare staffing expertise.
Merritt Hawkins Press Releases
Articles Featuring Merritt Hawkins & Associates
- How much is a physician worth to a hospital? About $1.4M - Dallas Business Journal
- Primary-care docs generating more hospital revenue: survey - Modern Physician
- PCPs Generate More Revenue than Specialists - Physician's Money Digest
- 'Seismic shift': PCPs generate more revenue than specialists - The Advisory Board Company
- 51 Statistics on Physician Salaries vs. Hospital Revenue Generated - Becker's Hospital Review
- Primary care generates more hospital revenue than specialists - Family Practice News
- Which Physicians Generate the Most Revenue for Hospitals? - Becker's Hospital Review
- Hospitals Generate More Revenue from Primary Care Doctors than Specialists - FierceHealthcare
- Primary Care Doctors Outperformed Subspecialists in Generating Hospital Revenue - ACP Internist
- Primary Care Doctors Make More Rain Than Specialists - Forbes
- The hospital: your best frenemy? - Physicians Practice
- Silent Exodus will Worsen the Doctor Shortage - Kevin MD
- Female Doctors more Positive than Males - Healthcare Financial News
- Physician employment shifts due to MU rules - SearchHealthIT
- Osteopathic doctors may alleviate physician shortage - Washington Post
- Are young hospitalists overwhelmed? - Today’s Hospitalist
- A silent exodus of physicians - Space Coast Daily
- Doctors flee Medicare to concierge - Forbes
- Bigger Incentives Expected for Job Hunting Physicians - American Medical News
- Employed Physicians Must Prioritize Quality Over Business - FierceHealthcare
- Why private practice doctors switch to urgent care - Ragan’s Health Care Communication News
- The Role of Physician Executives - KevinMD
- The End of Private Practice? - The Advisory Board
- Moving ahead on Obamacare creates need for more doctors - Dallas Business Journal
- Female physicians more optimistic? - D Magazine
- Who wants to be a country doctor? - American Medical News
- More doctors leave practices for hospital - Wyoming Tribune
- Ten Things Medical Schools Won’t Tell You - Wall Street Journal/Marketwatch
- Silent Exodus From Medicine Threatens Patient Access to Care - AAFP news
- Survey Foreshadows a Silent Exodus of Physicians - Hospitals & Health Networks
- How Has Cardiologists' Compensation Evolved Over the Past 5 Years? - Becker's Hospital Review
- Texas physicians more pessimistic, survey finds - D Magazine
- Current physician workforce outlook sullen - PhysBizTech
- Will a Silent Exodus of Physicians Worsen the Doctor Shortage? - American Medical News
- Physicians Working Less - Forbes
- Average Physician Relocation Allowance Stays Steady at $10k - Becker's Hospital Review
- Physicians Inch Toward Boiling Point - HealthLeaders
- Survey Finds Few Physicians Optimistic About ACOs - Becker's Hospital Review
- Survey predicts 'silent exodus' of physicians amid health reform - FiercePractice Management
- New Survey Validates That US Physicians are Ailing - Physicians Practice
- Has Physician Income Stagnated Over the Past 3 Years? - Becker's Hospital Review
- Beware of Taking the Physician Interview Lightly - HealtheCareers
- Survey a Physician “State of the Union” - HealthLeaders
- How Many Doctors Does a Community Need? - RecruitingTrends.com
- Today’s Physicians Prefer Employment - Dark Daily
- Demand for medical services increases as doctors exit the field - Healthcare Finance News
- Hospitals bidding farewell to 1- or 2-physician practices - Hospitals & Health Networks
- John C. Goodman: Why the Doctor Can't See You - Wall Street Journal
- Highmark working hard to reverse flight of doctors - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Economic impact: Adding physicians positive aspect for community - The Enid News
- How the Affordable Care Act will affect the physician shortage in primary care - Medical Economics
- The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs For Doctors - Forbes
- Panelists outline decline of small doc practices - Modern Healthcare
- Top 5 reasons why the physician practice is dying - FierceHealthcare
- Survey: PCPs Popular, but Few Hospitals Seek Solo Practitioners - Clinical Psychiatry News
- Physician employment could hit 75%, eclipsing private practice - FierceHealthcare
- Family Physician Salaries Rising, Says Survey - AAFP
- As Solo Physician Practices Dwindle, Economic Impact is Felt - D Healthcare
- PCPs are in high demand, but not those who go solo - Modern Medicine
- Market pricing - Modern Healthcare
- The fate of solo physician practice - Healthcare Finance News
- The problem with health care quality? It takes longer - Dallas Business Journal
- The Demise of Solo Practice - CNN Money
- National demand for hospitalists still strong - Today's Hospitalist
- Hospital Employment of Physicians Continues to Grow - Medscape Medical News
- More than 75% of newly hired physicians will be hospital employees - The Advisory Board
- Search for Solo Practice Dwindling - HealthLeaders
- Physician Recruitment Survey: Hospital Employment Up - Becker's Hospital Review
- It’s over for Marcus Welby - Forbes
- The Health Care Crisis No One Is Talking About - The Huffington Post
- Vanishing Practices & The Impact on Health IT - Healthcare Technology Online
- Prices for doctor services lag behind inflation - American Medical News
- 200 Statistics on Physician Compensation - Becker’s Hospital Review
- Why do so many doctors regret their job choices? - Forbes
- Is There a Doctor in the House? - Space Coast Magazine
- How to See Your Doctor Sooner - MSN Health & Fitness
- Where do Today’s Medical Residents Want to Practice? - Becker’s ASC Review
- Best Medical Schools for Primary Care - U.S. News & World Report
- More Students Selecting Primary Care - Salt Lake Tribune
- Court Rules for CRNAs in California - HealthLeaders
- Recruiting Canadian Physicians - RecruitingTrends.com
- How selling a practice kept it in the family - American Medical News
- Wisconsin pushes for more medical students - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- The push for osteopathic physicians - Peoria Journal Star
- California hospitals’ unhealthy dependence - Orange County Register
- Hospital hiring of physicians picks up steam - American Medical News
- Why heart doctors are leaving practice to work for hospitals - Philadelphia Inquirer
- Strategies for Rural Physician Recruiting - Trustee Magazine
- Newly Minted Physicians Seek Employment - AAFP News Now
- Residents Hold the Cards In Job Search - Hospitals & Health Networks
- "Side-by-side" alliances may add financial stability to practices - American Medical News
- Residents Hold the Cards In Job Search - Hospitals & Health Networks
- A Challenging Road Ahead for America’s Physicians - Physicians News Digest
- Where are the specialists? - Hospitals & Health Networks
- The Future of U.S. Health Care - Wall Street Journal
- Looming Primary Care Shortage Starts with Medical School - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- New Survey Shows Physicians Moving to Hospital Employment - RecruitingTrends.com
- Fighting the Tide Against Independent Physicians - HealthLeaders
- Physician Starter Job Syndrome - Today’s Hospitalist
- Seven Steps for Recruiting Medical Specialists - Becker’s Hospital Review
- Quality Incentives Become Bigger Factor in Physician Compensation - American Medical News
- Medical Residents Desire Hospital Employment - American Medical News
- Hiring a Nurse Practitioner May be in Your Future - Modern Medicine
- Should Physicians Rethink Their Choice of a Career? - HealthLeaders
- One Third of New Doctors Want a Do-Over - Physicians Practice
- New Doctors Uneasy About Their Career Choice - HealthCare Finance News
- Young Doctors Worry About Career Choices - New York Times
- Human Capital Makes Doctors Special - KevinMD
- Pro Bono Recruiting Effort Will Bring Doctor to a Small Town - RecruitingTrends
- Family Physicians Once Again Top the List of Recruitment Requests - AAFP News
- Young Internists Say “No Way” to Office Practice - Hospitalist News
- Compensation Models may Start Linking Doc Pay to Quality - Hospitals & Health Networks
- Physicians Flock to Hospitals - Hospitals & Health Networks
- A Look at Physician Compensation - Nashville Medical News
- Recruitment Demand High for Primary Care Doctors - Healthcare Financial News
- Physician Practices Falter on Thinning Margins - HealthLeaders
- 10 Statistics on Recruitment of Physicians - Becker’s ASC Review
- Top 5 Medical Specialties with Highest Percentage Gain - Becker’s Hospital Review
- Physician Pay Disparities - Forbes
- Paying Primary Care Doctors - San Diego Union Tribune
- Family Practice Tops List of Most Requested Physician Searches - Becker's Hospital Review
- Hiring Trend a Two-Way Street for Doctors, Hospitals - American Medical News
- Physician Jobs Offering Income Guarantees Tumble - HealtheCareers
- In Physician Recruiting, Local Needs Trump National Trends - HealthLeaders
- MGMA: Mixed Movement in Physician Comp - HealthLeaders
- Physician Compensation Reality - PhysicianTrends
- Physician Signing Bonuses Now Standard - American Medical News
- Physician Recruiters: Bonuses Based on Quality Few and Far Between - Wall Street Journal
- Mystery Shoppers Would Compare Wait Times to See Doctors - American Medical News
- 100 Statistics on Physician Compensation - Becker’s Hospital Review
- Healthcare Jobs on the Rise - U.S. News & World Report
- Hospitals Add Even More Docs - Indianapolis Business Journal
- Health Reform Can’t Work Without More Doctors - Fortune Magazine
- More Physicians Say No to Endless Work Days - New York Times
- Top Community Hospitals/Pro Bono Search - HealthLeaders
- Hospital Recruits Six FPs at A Time - Hospitals & Health Networks
- Big Lures for Small Practices - American Medical News
- Equal Pay for Male and Female Doctors? - Lonely Planet
- How to Close the Physician Age Gap - HealthLeaders
- 9 Medical Trends for 2011 - Health News Digest
- The Newly Insured: Who Will Care for Them? - 912 Super Seniors
- New York Physician Shortage Continues to Worsen - Healthcare Association of New York State
- Country Doc, City Doc - The Economist
- Health Reform, Round Two - New York Times
- As Doctors Age, Small Towns Face Critical Shortage - San Francisco Chronicle
- Doctor Exodus - Investor’s Business Daily
- You Can Keep Your Doctor - Las Vegas Review Journal
- Uncertainty Prompts Doctors to Rethink Private Practice - American Medical News
- Physicians Outraged by Health Reform, Survey Says - HealthLeaders
- Health Reform May Endanger Independent Physician Practices - HealthLeaders
- Doctors Blames New Health Law for Death of Private Practice - National Public Radio
- How Physicians Can Reduce Patient Wait Times - HealthLeaders
- Physicians Outraged by Health Reform, Survey Says - HealthLeaders
- Fewer Practices are Doctor-Owned - Wall Street Journal
- Primary Care Interest in Decline - Chicago Tribune
- The Primary Problem - Worcester Business Journal
- Primary Care Interest in Decline - Chicago Tribune
- Practices Hiring - American Medical News
- The Doctor Deficit - Investor’s Business Daily
- Competition is hot for primary care doctors - Waco Tribune
- Patients Facing Long Waits For Psychiatrists - Ohio Courier
- New Physician Payment Structures - American Medical News
- Study: No Problems if Nurse Anesthetists Work Unsupervised By Docs - Wall Street Journal
- International Doctors in US Perform Better Than Home-Grown Physicians - Bloomberg News
- State Medical Society Helps with Doctor Recruitment - American Medical News
- More Physicians Choosing Concierge Medicine - La Jolla Light
- Worst Paying Jobs for Doctors - Forbes
- Tired of Waiting for a Doctor? - Boston Globe
- Merritt Hawkins’ executive interviewed on ReachMD
- Bleak Physician Recruitment News for Small Market - HealthLeaders
- Of medical specialties, demand for psychiatrists growing fastest - USA Today
- Texas doctors threaten to drop Medicaid - Dallas Morning News
- Radiology Recruitment Shifts to Hospitals, Telerad Companies - Diagnostic Imaging
- Training for the front line of U.S. medical care - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
- Health Reform and the Physician Shortage - HealthLeaders.com
- Miffed MDs - Nashville Post
- Physician-Owned Hospitals Hit by Health Reform - Forbes
- Hospital Gain by Hiring Docs - Indianapolis Business Journal
- Rx Bill Aggravates US Doctor Shortage - Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Medical school trains more primary care physicians - Fort Worth Star Telegram
- Naturopaths to fill shortage in primary care - Portland Tribune
- Pediatric specialists in short Supply - Parents
- More doctors ‘unretiring’ - Physicians Practice
- Winners and Losers in Health Reform - Wall Street Journal
- Medicaid Pay to Increase - Dallas Morning News
- Primary Care Unappealing to Many Medical Students - HealthLeaders
- Physicians Generate $1.5 Million Annually - HealthLeaders
- Putting a Dollar Figure on a Doctor’s Worth - Wall Street Journal.com
- Specialist Nurses Paid Higher Salaries than MDs - CNN.Money
- Under Health Reform, Medicaid Would Cover Many Childless Adults - Kaiser Health News
- Where to get a doctor’s appointment – today - Philadelphia Inquirer
- Pediatric specialists in short supply - Dayton Daily News
- Doctors Hours Fall, Adding to Physician Shortage - Bloomberg News
- How Much Does Your Doctor Make? - Forbes
- The Doctor Will See You Now - Men’s Health
- New Rules Set for California HMOs - New York Times
- Trends in Hospitalist Recruiting - The Hospitalist
- California Limits HMO Wait Times - Los Angeles Times
- Shortage of Healthcare Workers a Growing Concern - San Diego News Network
- Government Healthcare A Children's Fable - Washington Examiner
- Nurse Practitioners Play Key Role In Providing Healthcare - Yakima Herald
- Doctor Shortage Healthcare's Biggest Threat - Sarasota Herald Tribune
- Unhappy Days in Radiology Not Here Again - Advance for Imaging & Radiation Oncology
- Grow Your Income - Physicians Practice
- Doctor Shortage to Spur Delays, Crowded ERs in Health Overhaul - Bloomberg USA
- Obama's Physician Shortage - Wall Street Journal
- What's Wrong With Massachusetts? - Medical Economics
- Radiologists Incomes Rise - Diagnostic Imaging
- Cover Story: Physicain Alignment - Hospitals & Health Networks
- Income Structure Is Key To Physician Recruiting - Health Leaders
- Building The Medical Home - Hospitals & Health Networks
- Doctors Quit Medicine - CNNMoney.com
- What's Behind Slow Hospital Job Growth? - Health Leaders
- Job Hunting In A Recession - American Medical News
- New California Rules Cut Wait Times for Medical Care - National Public Radio/All Things Considered
- Four Hidden Costs of Healthcare - Fortune.com
- First-Stop Docs Could Get A Raise - National Public Radio/WHYY News & Information
- For Doctors, Rationing Care is Standard Practice - Washington Post
- Community Health Centers Strained by Recession - Kaiser Health News
- Doctor Shortage Looms as Primary Care Loses its Pull - USA Today
- Job Hunting in a Down Economy – ACP Hospitalist
- The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs For Doctors – Forbes
- America's Best Places to Practice – Medical Economics
- Recruiter Report: Hiring Bonuses Spread for Doctors – The Wall Street Journal Health Blog
- Primary Care Salaries Exempt from Law of Supply and Demand – HealthLeaders Media
- Primary-Care Doctor Shortage May Undermine Reform Efforts – The Washington Post
- Wait Times to See a Doctor Getting Longer – USA Today
- Long Appointment Wait Times Signal Doctor Shortage – American Medical News
- Recruiting Doctors in Cincinnati Now Tougher – Cincinnati Business Journal
- The Doctor Will See You...When? Appointment Wait Times In 15 Cities – Newsweek.com
- MHA Cited by Syndicated Columnist Star Parker – WorldNetDaily.com
- Boston Has Longest Wait Times – The Wall Street Journal Health Blog
- Waits to See Boston Doctors Grow Even Longer – The Boston Globe
- Save Primary Care, But Don't Rob Peter to Pay Paul – HealthLeaders Media
- MHA Survey Shows Doctor Appointment Wait Times – HealthLeaders Media
- Doctor Wait Times Shortest in Atlanta – Triangle Business Journal
- Another Way to Seal the Deal: Using EMR to Recruit Physicians – Hospitals & Health Networks
- Older Physicians Coming Back – American Medical News
- Outlook for Docs Bleak, Primarily – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
- Hiring a Young Gun – Physicians Practice
- The Return of the Family Doc? – HealthLeaders Media
- Docs in Hock – Forbes
- Can the Medical Home Save Primary Care? – HealthLeaders Media
- Radiologists Rethinking Retirement – Enterprise Imaging
- The Primary Care Shortage – Texas Medicine
- Survey MHA conducted for the Physicians Foundation highlighted – The New York Times
- Doctors Urge: Rescue Primary Care or Work force Shortage will Mount – American Medical News
- Unhappy Docs Provide Roadmap to Recruiting, Retention – HealthLeaders Media
- Are Doctors Ready for the Country? – HealthLeaders Media
- Shortage of Primary Care Doctors – Milwaukee Sentinel Journal
- Cover Story: Our Annual Physician Compensation Survey – Physicians Practice
- The Recruiting Challenge for Internal Medicine – HealthLeaders Media
- Fewer Doctors, More Waiting – Portland Tribune
- Are Doctors Underpaid? – HealthLeaders Media
- Experts Say Striking A Work-Life Balance Critical for Doctors and the Patients They Treat – ABC News
- Some Nurses Land Higher Salaries Than Primary Care Doctors – The Wall Street Journal
- Job Search Advice for Young Doctors: Negotiate Everything – The Wall Street Journal
- Endangered Specialties: Radiologists Under Fire – Enterprise Imaging & Therapeutic Radiology Management
- Physician Recruiting: The Role of the CEO – HealthLeaders Media
- Cleveland Clinic's Medical School To Offer Tuition-Free Education – The Wall Street Journal
- As Doctors Get a Life, Strains Show – The Wall Street Journal
- Five Physician Mindsets – HealthLeaders Media
- Finance: What's in Your Wallet? – Physicians Practice
- Finance: How Does Your Pay Stack Up? – Physicians Practice
- Many Older Doctors Plan to Phase out Their Practice – Reuters