Permanent Physician, Academic, and Leadership Search

Merritt Hawkins is the largest permanent placement physician search and consulting company in the United States and is a company of AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AMN).  Merritt Hawkins conducts more than 3,000 permanent search assignments per year for physicians, physician leaders, and advanced practice professionals.  Celebrating over 32 years of service to the healthcare industry, Merritt Hawkins is acknowledged as the industry’s leading source of permanent physician recruiting expertise. The company is widely published and provides research information that includes a variety of surveys, such as its Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruitment Incentives (referenced annually in Modern Healthcare magazine), its Survey of Final Year Medical Residents, which has been referenced in The Wall Street Journal and many other publications, and its Survey of Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue.  

An industry leader for 32 years, Merritt Hawkins is the most consistently effective and service-oriented physician, physician leader and advanced practitioner search firm in the nation.

One featured resource from Merritt Hawkins is their 2023 Survey of Average Physician Billing to Commercial Payors

Now in its 30^th year, the report provides benchmark data that is widely referenced by health care administrators, healthcare professionals, policy makers and media members nationwide.

Surveys

• April 2023 - Survey of Average Physician Billing to Commercial Payors
• December 2022 - Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times and Medicare and Medicaid Acceptance Rates
• July 2022 - Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives 2022: An Overview of the Salaries, Bonuses, and Other Incentives Customarily Used to Recruit Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and CRNAs
• March 2022 - 2022 Survey of Maryland Physician Compensation: A Survey Examining Compensation Levels, Practice Metrics, and the Impact of COVID-19 on Maryland Physicians (Members Only)
• 2021 Survey - Healthcare Diversity in the Spotlight
• July 2020 - 2020 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives and the Impact of COVID-19
  • Merritt Hawkins Releases 2020 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives
• April 2020 - Physicians and COVID-19: A Survey Examining How Physicians Are Being Affected by and Are Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic
• 2019 Survey - Final Year Medical Residents by Merritt Hawkins
  

• 2019 Survey: Women in Medicine - Gender Pay Disparities and Workplace Discrimination

• 2018 Survey of Maryland Physician Compensation (Members Only) - This is a National Survey but includes Maryland-specific data.

Additional Resources

• Radiology Recruiting Trends and Recommendations - A White Paper 
  

• April 5, 2021 - CMS to Pay Physicians More For Evaluation and Management, Less For Other Services - Blogpost from April 5, 2021
  

• 2020 How to Assess a Medical Practice Opportunity White Paper Series - Examining Topics Affecting the Recruitment and Retention of Physicians and Advanced Practice Professionals

• Telehealth: The Integration of Telecommunication into Patient/Provider Encounters

• Physician recruiting incentives: Salaries, signing bonuses, value-based pay and benefits 

• The Silent Shortage - A White Paper Examining Supply, Demand, and Recruitment Trends in Psychiatry

• How to Access a Medical Practice Opportunity by Merritt Hawkins

• The Silent Shortage - A White Paper Examining Supply, Demand,  and Recruitment Trends in Psychiatry by Merritt Hawkins

• Trouble Seeing a Specialist? Here's What's Driving the "Doctors Drought" - Article in Fortune July 15, 2019
• 2017 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives - An Overview of the Salaries, Bonuses, and Other Incentives Customarily Used to Recruit Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners by Merritt Hawkins
• Final-Year Medical Residents 2017 Survey - A Survey Examining the Career Preferences, Plans and Expectations of Physicians Completing Their Residency Training - By Merritt Hawkins (October 25, 2017)