Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Los Angeles, CA
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Los Angeles, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.
Provider supply
Who practices in Los Angeles today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
45,697
Physicians
12,008
Nurse practitioners
6,056
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Los Angeles metro added 954 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 103 physicians, and 290 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: California side of the Los Angeles metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Los Angeles-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
152,505 employed, up 1.4% year over year. Average wages up 3.4% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
396,724 employed across 46,435 sites.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See California pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
287 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Los Angeles area.
22 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in Los Angeles?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the local market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.