Sources of income and principal employers of California physicians, August 1965. A report of the Bureau of Research and Planning, California Medical Association.
As of August 1965, 54.4 per cent of the 31,551 California physicians in active practice indicated that they receive all of their income from fees-for-service, with another 7.9 per cent receiving at least some of their income in this manner. A total of 8,025 M.D.'s, or 25.4 per cent, are on full-time salaries with no other source of professional income, and the remaining 12.2 per cent are members of group practices, whether on an income sharing or a salaried basis. Almost two-thirds of California physicians (66.6 per cent) consider themselves to be primarily self-employed. Of the 21,011 self-employed physicians, 76.3 per cent are in individual practice, 10.5 per cent in partnerships or groups (without income-sharing arrangements) and the remaining 13.2 per cent in group practice (income-sharing). Slightly over one-fifth of all salaried physicians are employed by some Federal agency, primarily in the armed forces. Among the other four-fifths, more than half are hospital employees, with most of the remainder working for other physicians, clinics or educational institutions. General Practice remains the most heavily populated specialty in California, accounting for 26.3 per cent of all physicians; among self-employed physicians only, G.P.'s number more than one out of every three physicians, or 34.6 per cent. Internists, General Surgeons, Psychiatrists and Obstetrician-Gynecologists rank next in order among all physicians; however, the positions of Psychiatrists and OB.'s is reversed among self-employed physicians.
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