MedPage Today November 15, 2024
— Report says doctors are “subsidized,” but some question the math
With hospitals now “subsidizing” their physician workforce to the tune of more than $300,000 per doctor each year, current models of physician employment aren’t sustainable, a new report suggested.
In the third quarter of 2024, hospitals spent $304,312 per doctor on what the report refers to as a “subsidy,” according to Matthew Bates, MPH, a managing director at Kaufman Hall, who was an author of the Physician Flash Report.
“When hospitals first started employing doctors … it was to create more ‘systemness’ and improve population health and value-based care by creating a continuum of delivery,” Bates told MedPage Today. “Right now, that cost model has become too lopsided. We...
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