Mean Salary: (1)
Tax Collection per Capita: (41)
Highest Malpractice Rate: (14)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: (46)
Average Cost of Living Index: (42)
Physician Density: 30,502 (42)
Mean Salary: $162,830 (51)
Tax Collection per Capita: N/A (N/A)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $30,324 (9)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $24,010 (51)
Average Cost of Living Index: 159.0 (50)
Physician Density: 7346 (20)
Mean Salary: $226,600 (38)
Tax Collection per Capita: $2,804 (11)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $12,096 (26)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $10,340 (36)
Average Cost of Living Index: 110.1 (30)
Physician Density: 22,036 (37)
Mean Salary: $214,170 (26)
Tax Collection per Capita: $3,731 (42)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $26,053 (12)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $15,864 (45)
Average Cost of Living Index: 107.9 (35)
Physician Density: 3,148 (8)
Mean Salary: $217,580 (21)
Tax Collection per Capita: $3,168 (38)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $13,283 (32)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $8,576 (23)
Average Cost of Living Index: 116.6 (40)
Physician Density: 4,721 (11)
Mean Salary: $191,110 (46)
Tax Collection per Capita: $2,527 (16)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $16,771 (26)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $12,134 (36)
Average Cost of Living Index: 106.3 (34)
Physician Density: 2,326 (5)
Mean Salary: $226,030 (12)
Tax Collection per Capita: $2,876 (30)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $14,441 (31)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $7,169 (17)
Average Cost of Living Index: 134.0 (47)
Physician Density: 12,149 (25)
Mean Salary: $209,810 (33)
Tax Collection per Capita: $1,979 (6)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $22,501 (17)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $13,080 (41)
Average Cost of Living Index: 99.6 (27)
Physician Density: 17,806 (33)
Mean Salary: $211,670 (31)
Tax Collection per Capita: $2,371 (14)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $22,780 (16)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $20,627 (50)
Average Cost of Living Index: 93.1 (18)
Physician Density: 13,821 (28)
Mean Salary: $213,340 (29)
Tax Collection per Capita: $2,708 (24)
Highest Malpractice Rate: $15,318 (30)
Lowest Malpractice Rate: $11,307 (34)
Average Cost of Living Index: 90.9 (11)
Physician Density: 13,816 (31)
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SEE THE STATES RANKED 51 to 41 HERE
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.
The Cunningham Group provided malpractice premium averages for each state.
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.
See the complete proje ct at Physicians Practice.
