It is also worth pointing out that "partnership" jobs are dwindling in general. We have gone over it before but all across medicine, doctors are selling their practices to hospitals or in the case of pathology also to the reference labs or other investors like APP. In those groups there is no such thing as partnership. All the pathologists are employees as someone else owns their group, even though they might still use the phrase to mean making the same as the long-timers.
The reference labs buy these practices to get the outpatient PC-TC cases controlled by the group and sometimes they are able to talk the hospitals into closing down their histology labs and then they bill the hospital for performing it and their off-site lab. From second hand I know that is what ameripath does. A hospital based pathologists whose group was sold to Ameripath explained all this to me, and said that Ameripath would take the first 23% off every dollar, and then they split 50-50 with the pathologists the profit the group generated, you know, after expenses. Unfortunately this person never got the 7 figure check when the group was sold as only partners did and this person was a new hire. Even more interesting is that this person told me their group was fipped. I.e. a pathologists who had sold his group from a big city to ameripath came in bought this group from a smaller city and then sold it to Ameripath a few months later. Flipping pathology practices. That's American! Selling practices has to be great for the old-timers that are getting ready to retire. They get a huge wind-fall to sail off into the sunset with, but I don't see why young partners would vote for this.
Maybe that group in AZ doesn't own their practice. Maybe they are all employees. Only way to find out is to check it out. AZ is a nice place to live most of the year.
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