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|Articles|July 27, 2020
The best states for physicians in 2020: The 11 worst states
Author(s)Drew Boxler, Logan Lutton
Physicians might not get the most bang for the buck in these states.
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What are the best states for physicians to practice in? Find out in the 2020 Best States to Practice rankings, a project produced by our partner publication at
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 all 50 states and D.C.
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