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The best states for physicians in 2020: 21-30
Author(s)Drew Boxler
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What are the best states for physicians to practice in? Find out in Physicians Practice Best States to Practice 2020 exclusive data project.
For our analysis, our editors ranked the states based on 2019 data covering five categories:
- Mean salary
- Highest/lowest malpractice premiums
- The 2019 cost of living index
- Tax climate (state collections per capita)
- Physician density
- Malpractice premium costs
Physicians Practice obtained the data from publicly available sources and partner organizations.
Here’s a brief description of our methodology: We ranked each state on the criteria described desirable outcome per criteria, then averaging those scores resulted in the ranks of the states below and in other sequences in the slideshow series.
Below are the top ten states for physicains to practice in 2020.
Other rankings:
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