Not surprisingly, the growth of hospitalist medicine has also been associated with growth in the utilization of mid-level providers (Nurse Practitioners primarily and Physician Assistants to a lesser extent). Key findings reported in the 2018 State of Hospital Medicine Report (published by the Society of...

The growth of hospitalist medicine has profoundly impacted the specialty of Internal Medicine, and the specialty of Family Medicine (though to a lesser extent). As of 2013, over 30% of all IM physicians, and over 7% of all FM physicians, were practicing as Hospitalists. ¹

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Hospitalist Medicine is the fastest growing medical specialty, and we do not envision a reversal of this trend in the foreseeable future.

The following forces are driving the demand for hospitalist medicine, in our estimation:

• Primary Care physicians increasingly prefer “outpatient only” practice
• Specialists dependence on hospitalists for...

With the cost of Hospitalist programs rising, medical centers and hospitalist companies understandably emphasize the need for improvements in hospitalist productivity. While solid productivity is a desired outcome, the “law of diminishing returns” will eventually manifest itself. At a certain point (which varies among individual...