13 Keys To Effective Physician Recruiting

Additional detailed information on the current physician recruiting market is included in AMN Healthcare’s white paper: The Physician Shortage: Projections, Causes and Solutions.

Given current market dynamics, hospitals, medical groups, and other physician employers should implement physician recruiting programs that are strategic, thorough, resource-based, flexible and responsive. To implement effective physician recruiting plans, healthcare facilities should:

1. Accept the process for what it is Recruiting a new physician can be critical to the quality of care a healthcare facility is able to provide its patients, as well as the access to care it can offer. Physicians also bring an important financial dimension to the practices or staffs they join. According to AMN Healthcare’s Physician Billing Report, physicians on average bill $3.8 million a year to commercial payors alone, not including billing submitted to Medicare and other government payors. Through the hospital admission they generate, tests they order, treatments they perform and other activities, physicians act as the economic engines for the facilities by which they are employed or with which they are affiliated. Healthcare facilities should therefore treat the physician recruiting process with the seriousness it deserves. Time, effort, resources and responsiveness will be required to find a physician who is a long-term fit. Healthcare leaders should be prepared to be personally involved in the physician recruiting process, shaping strategies, incentives, and candidate parameters, and, of most importance, ensuring responsiveness and timely decision making.

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