Locum tenens and permanent physician, NP, PA and CRNA placement.
Hospitalists, intensivists, emergency medicine and anesthesia.
Primary care, psychiatry and specialty practice.
Nurse practitioners, physician assistants and CRNAs.
The locum tenens market is projected at roughly $13.5 billion in 2026, with around 80% of healthcare organisations planning to maintain or increase their use. Physician shortage projections run as high as 86,000 by 2036, and advanced practice provider locums are growing faster still while remaining underused relative to physician locums. The practical implication is that good candidates are booked months ahead.
Physicians and advanced practice providers are licensed in all 50 states. The Interstate Medical Licensure Compact is widely described as portability and is not — it is an expedited route to obtaining several separate state licenses, each still issued and regulated independently. The physician assistant compact has been enacted but is not yet issuing privileges. Privileging, which runs on your medical staff committee calendar, is usually the binding constraint rather than licensure.
Locums stabilises the schedule so a permanent search can run on merit rather than desperation. Hiring a permanent physician while critically short-staffed is how facilities end up with a bad twelve-month hire. Locum-to-perm is common and low risk.
Every candidate is spoken to before you see them. We confirm licensure status for your state, verify certifications at primary source, check unit-specific competency against the population you described at intake, and complete exclusion and background screening before submittal. Nothing reaches your inbox that we have not already checked.
Rates for this division sit inside the ranges on our published cost breakdown, and there is role-specific guidance in our hiring guides. If you want the service overview instead, see Physicians & APPs staffing.
Tell us the unit and the credential and we will come back with a realistic fill window and current market rate.