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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Doctor Supply

It seems everyone wants to add a physiatrist to their practice, hospital, etc. There are so many physical medicine and rehabilitation jobs on ourwebsite. Interventional physiatry jobs are also plentiful. Who’s going to fill all these openings? What’s the supply of physiatrists in the US?

The number of medical school applicants from 2018 to 2019 increased by 1.1%. This very small increase doesn’t bode well for physician supply in general. Many more physicians, to include physiatrists, are needed to fill all the physical [ . . . ]

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Jobs and Physiatry Supply

I can’t say enough about the abundance of physical medicine and rehabilitation jobs compared to the number of available physiatrists. There was a study done in 2019 about the physiatry workforce in 2019 and beyond. Thank you to all the physiatrists who participated in this study which was published in September, 2021. We are still seeing this trend in 2023.

Process: They developed and implemented an online survey of board-certified physiatrists (n = 616 completed, 30.1% response) to collect information about demographics, practice characteristics, hours worked, [ . . . ]

The New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Job Fair

I had the good fortune to attend the New York City Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Society Job Fair last week. It was great to meet the doctors who attended. It was a fun night. Thank you to those who organized it and who stopped by my booth. I wish everyone the best in their practice search.

Physiatry Compensation and Bonus – RVU-based versus Income-based

With RVU-based compensation and bonus, either the practice or the employee may be shortchanged, as follows:

Practice has many low-reimbursing payors – Practice is short-changed

In practices with many self-pay (often becomes no-pay) or Medicaid patients (with its lower reimbursement), the practice may be shortchanged by tying compensation and bonuses to RVUs. Although the employed physician meets his RVU work requirement, the lower reimbursement will result in lower practice income which may be insufficient to cover the physician’s compensation and bonus.

Practice has many traditional reimbursing payors – Physician-employee is short-changed

In practices with a payor mix of traditional carriers (Medicare, BCBS), the employee [ . . . ]