Practice trends influencing charity care
Quick View. May 5, 2008.
Income pressures on doctors over the last decade have caused a shift away from solo practice and practice ownership.
|
1996-97 |
2000-01 |
2004-05 |
| Income from practice of medicine |
$180,930 |
$170,850 |
$168,122 |
| Physicians owning practice |
68.9% |
58.3% |
57.6% |
| Physicians in solo or two-physician practices |
40.7% |
36.1% |
34.0% |
| Physicians in small group practices |
19.3% |
21.0% |
19.4% |
| Physicians in medium or large group practices |
9.5% |
9.3% |
12.5% |
| Physicians in institutional practices |
19.3% |
22.2% |
22.3% |
| Physicians providing any charity care |
76.3% |
71.5% |
68.2% |
| Physicians accepting all new Medicaid patients |
51.1% |
51.9% |
52.1% |
| Physicians accepting no new Medicaid patients |
19.4% |
20.9% |
21.0% |
The financial and practice trends have, in turn, impacted charity care and acceptance of Medicaid patients, concludes a recent report, based on the Center for Studying Health System Change's Community Tracking Study Physician Surveys.
Source: "Effects of Changes in Incomes and Practice Circumstances on Physicians' Decisions to Treat Charity and Medicaid Patients," Milbank Quarterly, March
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