Table 4.
Anticipated Organizational Changes in the Next 12 Months
| Change | Practice Size (No. of physicians) |
Geographic Location |
Geography |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One to Two (n = 189; %) | Three to Six (n = 207; %) | ≥ Seven (n = 159; %) | χ2 | P | Northeast (n = 118; %) | North Central (n = 180; %) | South (n = 221; %) | West (n = 112; %) | χ2 | P | Metropolitan (n = 520; %) | Nonmetropolitan (n = 79; %) | χ2 | P | |
| Purchase another practice | 18.834 | .016 | 15.743 | .471 | 3.091 | .543 | |||||||||
| Very unlikely | 91.2 | 87.2 | 75.9 | 81.5 | 85.1 | 84.9 | 85.7 | 84.2 | 87.1 | ||||||
| Somewhat unlikely | 2.9 | 4.5 | 9.0 | 9.8 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 5.2 | 7.1 | ||||||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 3.5 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 8.8 | 5.4 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Somewhat likely | 0.0 | 1.7 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 2.6 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Very likely | 2.4 | 1.7 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Merge with another practice | 5.021 | .755 | 20.522 | .198 | 0.786 | .940 | |||||||||
| Very unlikely | 67.1 | 72.1 | 72.2 | 64.1 | 69.5 | 74.0 | 70.3 | 69.2 | 70.0 | ||||||
| Somewhat unlikely | 8.8 | 8.9 | 6.8 | 9.8 | 10.6 | 7.3 | 4.4 | 8.2 | 10.0 | ||||||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 12.4 | 6.7 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 10.6 | 6.8 | 11.0 | 9.4 | 10.0 | ||||||
| Somewhat likely | 6.5 | 8.4 | 6.0 | 8.7 | 5.7 | 6.8 | 11.0 | 8.2 | 5.7 | ||||||
| Very likely | 5.3 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 5.2 | 3.3 | 4.9 | 4.3 | ||||||
| Sell the practice | 13.317 | .101 | 28.752 | .026 | 6.959 | .138 | |||||||||
| Very unlikely | 71.8 | 78.1 | 83.5 | 77.2 | 72.9 | 80.2 | 75.8 | 75.5 | 78.6 | ||||||
| Somewhat unlikely | 5.9 | 9.0 | 6.0 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 4.7 | 9.9 | 8.3 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 8.8 | 7.3 | 4.5 | 7.6 | 9.3 | 4.7 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 5.7 | ||||||
| Somewhat likely | 7.6 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 5.4 | 4.3 | ||||||
| Very likely | 5.9 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 3.3 | 5.0 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 8.6 | ||||||
| Close the practice | 27.943 | < .001 | 50.413 | < .001 | 2.213 | .697 | |||||||||
| Very unlikely | 75.3 | 89.3 | 94.0 | 81.5 | 85.0 | 85.9 | 85.7 | 84.0 | 88.6 | ||||||
| Somewhat unlikely | 6.5 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 5.4 | 2.1 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.3 | ||||||
| Neither likely nor unlikely | 8.2 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Somewhat likely | 3.5 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 2.9 | ||||||
| Very likely | 6.5 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 4.3 | 5.7 | 2.1 | 5.5 | 4.2 | 1.4 | ||||||