2022-24 Physician Assistant Workforce Survey Page 4 of 23 Executive Summary The 2017 Florida Legislature required a PA Workforce Survey comparable to the Physician Workforce Survey completed by allopathic and osteopathic physicians as part of license renewal, as provided in sections 458.347(6)(b)1.c and 458.347(6)(b)2, Florida Statutes. PAs are required to complete the survey every two years when they renew their license to practice.2 A total of 14,427 PAs renewed their license in 2022 and 2024 and responded to the workforce survey,3 which is a 22.9% increase from the number of PAs who responded to the 2021 and 2023 surveys. Of the 14,427 PA survey respondents who renewed their license in 2022 and 2024 and responded to the workforce survey, 14,342 (or 99.4%) responded to the question about whether they were practicing in Florida; 85% of PA survey respondents who answered this question (or 12,612 of 14,342) confirmed that they were practicing in Florida. With the exception of the PA demographic data, the findings presented in this report are based on the 14,427 PAs who responded to the survey at the time of their renewals in 2022 and 2024.4 • The overall pattern of demographic data from the Florida Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance (MQA) licensure database and survey respondents reveals 68.6% of renewing PAs are female, 74% are White, and 34.9% are 31-40 years of age. • The top four specialty areas of PAs in Florida are Internal Medicine (21%), Family Medicine (15%), Emergency Medicine (14%), and Dermatology (8%). • Primary care PAs account for 39% of the PA workforce who renewed in 2022 and 2024, which is 19% more than the primary care PAs reported in 2021 and 2023. • Over 49.4% of PAs work in an office practice setting and 33.5% practice in a hospital. • More PAs report their practice accepts new Medicare patients (86.3%) compared to new Medicaid patients (66.5%). • A total of 6.2% of PAs have already retired or plan to retire in the next five years. An additional 7.7% of respondents indicate plans to relocate out of state in the next five years. In total, these PAs represent 14% (or 2,000 of 14,342) of the PAs who renewed in 2022 and 2024. 2 Newly licensed PAs do not complete a survey. 3 It should be noted that not every PA who responded to the survey provided a response to every question. Therefore, the findings generated for each question are based on the number of PAs who responded to that question and not the total number of survey respondents. 4 The PA demographic data is not captured through the PA Workforce Survey; rather, demographic information is captured through MQA’s licensure database, which stores PA’s self-reported information about their age, ethnicity, and sex (also referred to as a licensure profile). More PAs completed their licensure profile than completed the 2022 and 2024 survey (or 14,837 compared to 14,427, respectively).
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