SPOTLIGHT: Hospitals, doctors' offices should hire more in the next year
Several factors--most notably an anticipated stabilization of Medicare payments to physicians and the new healthcare reform law--are contributing to many experts' opinions that more jobs at both doctors' offices and hospitals will be created in the coming months, according to an American Medical News article. In the first six months of 2010, the number of jobs added in doctors' offices was pinned at 3,600, a dramatic decrease from the 8,000 jobs added in the first half of 2009. But with Congress finally agreeing in June on a 2.2 percent pay increase for Medicare doctors through Nov. 30, many, including Medical Group Management Association vice president of innovation and research David Gans, see a light at the end of the tunnel. FierceHealthcare




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