Medical Economics December 7, 2022
Consider these factors as you ponder your prospects for the next year.
It’s become somewhat of an annual tradition for healthcare market analysts and forecasters to assess the always tumultuous medical practice environment and predict trouble ahead for independent physicians. In recent years the tone has turned even more negative, amplified by pandemic practice closures, shrinking choices for doctors and ever-sharper increases in reports of career-destroying burnout. All signs may seem to point to further erosion of decades of autonomy and individual vision with a short list of options for physicians in 2023. These include becoming employed by a healthcare system, payor organization or private equity firm, retiring early, leaving medicine altogether – or making a change to concierge medicine....