Growing physician employment is a concern for ambulatory surgery centers as possible referral sources are absorbed hospitals. A recent study conducted by the American Medical Association has found that single-specialty practice physicians most likely to be employed by hospitals are in internal medicine (45.1 percent) and family practice (37 percent), according to an AAFP report.
Overall, the study found that 53 percent of physicians were self-employed in 2012. Though hospital employment is a growing trend, physician independence has not grown to be an entirely scare commodity.
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