A physician recruitment firm is reporting that the physician employment market is returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to HealthLeaders. This means that, after being dormant during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, both demand and pay are increasing, according to Jackson Physician Search.

“As physician shortages continue to grow, this could turn into a free agency market because the competition between healthcare organizations needing physicians could lift restrictions and guidelines for hiring physicians. It is a market where the physicians should be able to demand what they want.”

There are lots of incentives to retrain as a primary care physician and return to practice… and it looks like compensation is once again one of them!

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