03/28/2025
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Most doctors in the U.S. are now employees, working for others in physician groups, insurance companies or hospitals and health care systems. Meanwhile, the growth of health care administration positions has far outpaced that of physicians in practice, according to an AMA Board of Trustees report whose recommendations were adopted at the Interim Meeting.
This rise in physician employment and health care administrators has created tension, with a disconnect and lack of understanding between these professional groups. This tension has been recognized as a significant source of intrusion on physician autonomy, the board report says. “The large-scale employment of physicians has brought about a change to the profession that has resulted in conflict,” said David H. Aizuss, MD, secretary of the AMA Board of Trustees. “Traditional physician autonomy in patient care is now being influenced by pressures motivated by cost versus high quality patient care.”
Physicians are key decision-makers
“The key concern is that this new organizational and economic reality of medicine will undermine physician autonomy in a way that harms patients,” says the report. There may also be questions about loyalties “where health care institutions’ financial incentives may conflict with patient well-being.” To that end, delegates directed the AMA to “continue to strongly oppose any encroachment of administrators upon the medical decision-making of attending physicians that is not in the best interest of patients.”
This aligns with existing AMA policy on physician decision-making in health care systems. The policy notes that certain professional decisions that are critical to high-quality patient care should always be the responsibility of the physician in any practice setting.
