Emergency Physicians Reduce Clinical Volume Before Attrition

Medscape March 12, 2025
Edited by Deepa Varma

TOPLINE:

Emergency physicians reduced their clinical service volume in the year before attrition. After leaving emergency medicine, only a minority continued practicing in other clinical settings, primarily in urgent care and office-based settings.

METHODOLOGY:

• Researchers conducted a repeated cross-sectional analysis using Medicare Data on Provider Practice and Specialty from 2013 to 2021, assessing practice patterns among 60,140 unique emergency physicians who billed for more than 50 emergency department (ED) services annually.
• Attrition was defined as not billing for ED services after previously billing at least 50 services in a year.
• The primary outcome was the ED-based service volume before attrition, and the secondary outcome was the observed practice settings after workforce exit.

TAKEAWAY:

• Annual attrition rates among...

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