Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Lansing, MI
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Lansing, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Lansing-East Lansing, MI 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 Lansing today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
1,984
Physicians
555
Nurse practitioners
368
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Lansing metro added 24 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 32 physicians, and 25 physician assistants to the registry. New physician enrollments kept pace with advanced-practice growth over the period.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Michigan side of the Lansing metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Lansing-area healthcare employers.
Ambulatory care
9,016 employed across 784 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 Michigan pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
36 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Lansing area.
0 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 Lansing?
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.