Some walk-in clinics are integrating more nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to meet growing patient demand, since they can address most common urgent care conditions at a lower cost than doctors. Urgent care centers rely on having a licensed practitioner to meet the legal requirements for delivering services. Many providers are moving away from traditional full-time, private practices to positions in hospital, part-time practice, concierge medicine, and locum tenens-temporary, substitute providers who are sometimes hired to fill vacancies in urgent care centers so the facility can remain open and serving patients. The urgent care industry pulls from the same provider labor pool as primary care, so as demand increases for primary care providers the task of recruiting physicians for immediate care facilities becomes even more challenging.Īnd over the past two decades much has evolved in medical practice. Due to pay differentials, most medical students opt for specialties versus general practice. The vast shortage of primary care and other physicians is linked to the aging, increasingly ill population and medical schools not turning out primary care providers fast enough. The nation is projected to face a shortage of as many as 94,700 physicians by the year 2025, according to the most recent analysis by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). The data comes from the Merritt Hawkins’ 2016 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives, which studied more than 3,300 recruiting assignments from Apto March 31, 2016. The average salary for an urgent care doctor rose from $210,000 last year to $221,000 in the most recent study. Urgent care physicians were ninth on the list of most recruited specialists-up from 20 th last year-highlighting the growing consumer demand for immediate care services.
The high demand for doctors across various specialties is good news for those hoping to practice medicine in urgent care, however it underscores the ongoing struggle to hire and retain urgent care physicians. A new report suggests urgent care doctor salary rates are higher for starting positions as the physician shortage continues.
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