MedCity News August 17, 2023
As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more primary care assets, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of nurse practitioners, this rise in demand is also boosting their salaries. Physicians’ starting salaries have remained relatively flat, but their average signing bonus grew.
As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more provider groups, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of advanced practitioners, this rise in demand is also boosting their salaries, according to a recent report from AMN Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare staffing companies in the U.S.
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