Hospital Statistics Chart Rise in Physician Employment By Haydn Bush from Hospitals and Health News

Roughly 20 percent of all physicians are now employed by hospitals.

The number of physicians employed by hospitals has grown by 32 percent since 2000, according to the recently released 2012 edition of AHA Hospital Statistics. Today, hospitals employ approximately 212,000 physicians, according to the book. Hospitals have a range of relationships with privileged physicians: 55.1 percent of physicians are not employed or under contract, while 20.3 percent are covered by a group contract; 17.3 percent are directly employed and 7.2 percent have individual contracts.

Among the other key findings:

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