Healthcare Recruiting · San Antonio, TX

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

We track the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 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 San Antonio today

Individual providers with an active practice address in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).

9,316

Physicians

3,445

Nurse practitioners

1,593

Physician assistants

Over the last 12 months, the San Antonio metro added 202 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 25 physicians, and 66 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: Texas side of the San Antonio metro area.

Demand

What the local employer market looks like

Federal quarterly employment data for San Antonio-area healthcare employers.

Hospitals

28,684 employed, up 1.9% year over year. Average wages up 0.1% over the same period.

Ambulatory care

84,970 employed across 5,576 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 Texas pay ranges →

Shortage pressure

214 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the San Antonio area.

98 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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