|Articles|August 31, 2010

Best States to Practice 2010

Trying to decide which state to practice in? Our guide to state-level conditions affecting physicians’ wallets will help you choose wisely.

Looking for the Land of Smiling Physicians? Our “traffic light guide” to state-level data on conditions affecting physician’ wallets should help. For each state, we present numbers on cost of living, Medicare pay, taxes, malpractice premiums, and more - each color-coded traffic-light style. Lots of green boxes means go. Lots of red - put the brakes on that move.

This article originally appeared in the September 2010 issue of Physicians Practice.

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