Advisory Board March 20, 2025
WalletHub on Tuesday released its list of the “Best & Worst States for Doctors” in 2025, which ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on several factors, including average annual physician wage and the quality of the public hospital system.
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Methodology
To create the list, WalletHub evaluated the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on 19 different metrics across two key dimensions:
- Opportunity and competition, which includes physicians’ average annual wage, hospitals per capita, the insured population rate, and current competition in an area (70 points)
- Medical environment, which includes the quality of the public hospital system, the percentage of...
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