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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Nov;31(11):2453–2463. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0252

Exhibit 2.

Breakdown of Care by Physician Specialty

Physician Specialty n Fraction of all
physicians
(%)
Episodes
assigned to
specialty
Fraction of all
episodes
(%)
Avg
Episodes/
Physician
Allergy and Immunology 93 0.8% 18,356 0.6% 197.4
Cardiology 695 5.7% 72,714 2.5% 104.6
Cardiothoracic Surgery 94 0.8% 2,348 0.1% 25.0
Dermatology 332 2.7% 247,366 8.6% 745.1
Emergency Medicine 678 5.6% 64,977 2.3% 95.8
Endocrinology 162 1.3% 17,995 0.6% 111.1
Family/General Practice 1,012 8.4% 405,111 14.2% 400.3
Gastroenterology 417 3.4% 110,814 3.9% 265.7
General Surgery 555 4.6% 65,078 2.3% 117.3
Hematology/Oncology 299 2.5% 18,274 0.6% 61.1
Infectious Diseases 231 1.9% 25,233 0.9% 109.2
Internal Medicine 2,857 23.6% 996,780 34.8% 348.9
Nephrology 193 1.6% 14,390 0.5% 74.6
Neurological Surgery 104 0.9% 4,256 0.1% 40.9
Neurology 420 3.5% 32,516 1.1% 77.4
Obstetrics and Gynecology 899 7.4% 298,559 10.4% 332.1
Ophthalmology 513 4.2% 169,017 5.9% 329.5
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 13 0.1% 866 0.0% 66.6
Orthopedic Surgery 558 4.6% 69,684 2.4% 124.9
Otolaryngology 218 1.8% 59,636 2.1% 273.6
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation 137 1.1% 6,965 0.2% 50.8
Plastic Surgery 117 1.0% 14,861 0.5% 127.0
Psychiatry 706 5.8% 9,942 0.3% 14.1
Pulmonary & Critical Care 356 2.9% 44,992 1.6% 126.4
Rheumatology 174 1.4% 34,402 1.2% 197.7
Urology 211 1.7% 49,082 1.7% 232.6
Vascular Surgery 72 0.6% 6,879 0.2% 95.5
Overall 12,116 2,861,093 236.1

Source: Authors’ own analyses