US cardiologists are increasingly opting out of solo or small practices, and joining larger practices, according to a new analysis of US data from 2013 and 2017. In 2013, 34.2% of US cardiologists worked in practices of 5 or fewer cardiologists. That number dropped to just 27% by 2017. On the flip side, the proportion working in practices with 25 cardiologists or more rose from 26% in 2013 to 35.8% in 2017. The investigators had no direct data from which to ascertain the reasons why cardiologists have tended to move from smaller to larger practices, but they did conduct a multivariable linear regression analysis to better understand possible market-level factors that may be influencing these trends. What they found was that as hospital market concentration increased, practice sizes also increased.
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Source: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/934766#vp_1