Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Ohio
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Ohio, grounded in the market's real numbers.
We track Ohio's provider workforce 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 Ohio today
Individual providers with an active Ohio practice address, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
42,634
Physicians
20,154
Nurse practitioners
6,276
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, Ohio added 863 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 220 physicians, and 416 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.
Demand
Employment is growing on both sides of the market
Federal quarterly employment data for Ohio healthcare employers.
Hospitals
248,570 employed, down 5.8% year over year. Average wages up 3.5% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
321,215 employed across 23,858 sites, and the site count itself is up 3.7% year over year: more locations competing for the same clinicians.
Source: BLS QCEW, statewide, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Compensation
What Ohio pays
Mean annual wages from the federal occupational employment survey. Offers below these lines explain their own vacancy.
| Role | Employed in Ohio | Mean annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| Family medicine physicians | 1,490 | $226,800 |
| Nurse practitioners | 15,400 | $122,910 |
| Physician assistants | 4,900 | $136,560 |
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025 estimates.
Shortage pressure
1,047 federally designated primary care shortage areas in Ohio.
647 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, and every open req is competing with 1,047 other designated areas for the same clinicians. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in Ohio?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.