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...

Unlike other hospital clinical services, hospitalist services rarely grow into a self-sustaining state. Patient collections on average cover less than 60% of total hospitalist program expenses (which are primarily variable expenses). Thus, as a hospitalist program grows, so do the aggregate financial needs. The chart...