Healthcare Recruiting · Myrtle Beach, SC

Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Myrtle Beach, grounded in the metro's real numbers.

We track the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC 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.

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Provider supply

Who practices in Myrtle Beach today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

875

Physicians

434

Nurse practitioners

178

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Myrtle Beach metro added 26 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 4 physicians, and 12 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: South Carolina side of the Myrtle Beach metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Myrtle Beach-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

4,509 employed, down 0.0% year over year. Average wages up 2.5% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

7,216 employed across 800 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 South Carolina pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

2 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Myrtle Beach 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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