No exodus: physicians and managed care networks.(HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY)

"While the overwhelming majority of physicians continue to contract with insurers, the proportion of physicians nationally without a managed care contract increased from 9.2% to 11.5% between 2000-01 and 2004-05 (Table 1). During the same period, the number of practicing US physicians grew from 379,000 to 397,000, resulting in an estimated 45,600 physicians in 2004-05 without any managed care contracts, up from an estimated 35,000 in 2000-01.

The increase among physicians without a managed care contract was consistent with increases in the percentage of physicians reporting their practice does not receive any managed care revenue. Among physicians who had at least one …