Public Service Loan Forgiveness has long been one of the few financial incentives pulling physicians toward the places that need them most: rural towns, urban cores, federally qualified health centers and lower-paying specialties such as family medicine and pediatrics. Marc…
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A federal bill introduced Sept. 16 would do more than bar private equity firms from owning physician practices. It targets the management services organization structure PE-backed platforms have used to operate in corporate practice of medicine states, and it would…
More than one-third of U.S. counties have no general surgeon, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The study mapped surgeons across 12 surgical specialties in every U.S. county, using April 2025 data…
Most rural physician vacancies are identified late and never formally priced, according to a survey of rural healthcare administrators and clinicians from Jackson Physician Search, LocumTenens.com and MGMA. Three-quarters of administrators surveyed reported a consequential physician vacancy in the past…
About 7 in 10 physicians report receiving a continuing medical education allowance, but only 6.7% of physician job listings publish its dollar value, according to a Sept. 24 analysis from clinician salary and job listing platform Marit. The analysis covers…
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Marc Ayoub, MD, founded Saile to address a problem that often goes overlooked in discussions of the clinician workforce: the time it takes clinicians to get credentialed and connected to available work. Dr. Ayoub, a neurocritical care physician, said he…
Minneapolis-based Allina Health and Doctors Council-SEIU have reached a tentative agreement on a first union contract for physicians at Allina Health Mercy Hospital’s Unity and Mercy campuses in the Minneapolis area. “We are pleased to share that Allina Health and…
Preventive medicine physicians have the best lifestyle balance of 36 specialties, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from physician salary platform Marit Health. Marit built its Lifestyle Balance Index from more than 24,400 anonymous salary and schedule submissions from full-time…
Nearly 6 in 10 healthcare workers plan to search for a new role within the next year, with Generation Z the most likely to eye the exit, according to the 2026 Healthcare Workforce Barometer. Five things to know: 1. Seven…
Physician and provider search volume did not change much in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment. The 2026 edition of the AAPPR’s “Physician and Provider Recruitment…