Emergency Medicine Medical Directors Top the Charts for Most Hours Worked

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September 18, 2017

Let’s look at medical directorship agreements and examine which services reported the highest median hours worked per year.

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Previously, we have investigated key trends in call coverage arrangements using MD Ranger’s 2017 physician contracting benchmarks. Now, let’s look at medical directorship agreements and examine which services reported the highest median hours worked per year.

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This graph shows the five medical directorships with the highest median hours reported per year. They are Emergency Medicine, Ambulatory Services, Pathology, Trauma Surgery, and Cardiology - Heart Center. Comparing to the benchmarks from the past four years, you can see where hours have increased or decreased in scope. As you can see, the most dramatic changes are in Emergency Medicine, especially over the past two years.

The list of medical directorship positions with the highest reported hours remained mostly the same as last year, when Emergency, Trauma Surgery, Pathology, and Cardiology-Heart Center all also featured. Ambulatory Services, the only new service in the top 5, replaced Pediatric Surgery from the 2016 list.

One major trend we see is a continuing spike in hours worked in medical directorships in Emergency Medicine, well beyond the other top 5 services by hours per year. This stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the top services where the trends are leveling off or even decreasing.

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