September 11, 2026

The share of physicians in private practice fell from 60.1 percent in 2012 to 42.2 percent in 2024, according to the American Medical Association’s own benchmark survey. Hospital and corporate employment kept climbing every year in between. By the numbers,…

A one day delay in credentialing a new provider costs a medical group roughly 10,122 dollars in lost billing capacity, according to the survey MGMA still cites as the industry benchmark. Almost a third of medical groups now report some…

Gold carding exempts a provider from prior authorization on a specific service once they clear roughly a 90 percent approval rate over a 6 to 12 month lookback. It is not one federal program. It is a patchwork of state…