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I wouldn't feel too comfortable if I was in an independent radonc group in the current market and encouraging the expansion of the radonc labor pool. The hospitals are finding it pretty cheap to hire radoncs instead of working with radonc groups and are therefore bypassing radonc groups and hiring radoncs as employees. I'm an example of a relatively new employee who the hospital found it cheaper to hire as an employee than to work with another local radiation group.
It has nothing to do with how cheap or expensive it is to hire you and everything to do with controlling the rad onc in-house, rather than letting an independent group work in the system. That way, you'll send to other employed hospital docs and vice versa. Plus if that group had their own linac, the hospital would have the risk of having the technical revenue diverted away. If given the choice, hospital would prefer to employ a rad onc, especially if they own the machine and have an associated medical group.
I work in an environment with both employed and independent physicians and have seen this happen before. Independents support independents and employed docs keep referrals within the employed group.