Six physicians recently joined Becker's to discuss the relationship between physicians and the hospitals they work for. 

Here are five numbers that provide a look into the employed physician workforce. 

The share of physicians in private practice has decreased from 60.1% in 2012 to 46.7% in 2022, with practice acquisition serving as one of the driving factors for this decline over the last decade.

Phoenix Children's has named Jared Muenzer, MD, as its next chief physician executive.

Emergency medicine tops the list of physician specialties with the highest percentage of burnout, according to a survey with over 13,000 responses from physicians and nonphysician providers across 30 states conducted by the American Medical Association.

Nandita Gupta, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth's St. John Medical Center in Longview, effective Aug. 28.

Here are the best and worst states across a variety of metrics that Becker's has reported on since July 17:

Here are seven compensation updates Becker's reported in August that physicians should know:

WalletHub published its ranking of the best states for healthcare on July 31. One of the dimensions used to determine the ranking was healthcare access, which was based on 24 different metrics such as physicians per capita, hospital beds per capita, and average emergency department wait time. 

A Tennessee physician was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after being convicted of 13 felony healthcare fraud charges.

Ballad Health has reconfigured its chief medical officer structure in efforts to strengthen the system's physician leadership. 

Fifty-eight percent of medical groups review their payer contracts annually, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Aug. 15 Stat poll.