Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · New York, NJ
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in New York, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 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 New York today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
22,972
Physicians
7,964
Nurse practitioners
3,292
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the New York metro added 676 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 86 physicians, and 282 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: New Jersey side of the New York metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for New York-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
97,130 employed.
Ambulatory care
208,767 employed across 17,112 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 New Jersey pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
96 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the New York 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.
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Hiring in New York?
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.