Healthcare Recruiting · Chattanooga, TN

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

We track the Chattanooga, TN-GA 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 Chattanooga today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the Chattanooga, TN-GA area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

1,645

Physicians

1,084

Nurse practitioners

211

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the Chattanooga metro added 37 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 5 physicians, and 7 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: Tennessee side of the Chattanooga metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for Chattanooga-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

12,536 employed, up 0.0% year over year. Average wages up 7.1% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

14,572 employed across 1,057 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 Tennessee pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

62 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Chattanooga 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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