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Largest critical care physician group practices

When looking to sell your product, software, or service into the critical care market, it’s crucial to refine your approach by narrowing your focus and identifying the most promising prospects.

While geographic location is a common method for defining your target audience, other strategic approaches include segmenting by group size and specialty. Targeting larger critical care physician groups offers a distinct advantage. These groups typically have multiple locations and numerous physicians, creating a broader network of potential clients. How many critical care physician group practices are there in the U.S.?

Our database has identified 107 active critical care physician group practices in the U.S. However, it’s common for physician groups to have several different locations—this allows them to access more patients and remain competitive. Knowing this, the number of physician group practices does not reflect the number of critical care practices in the United States.

Why target critical care physician groups?

Critical care physician groups are specialists who provide medical care for those with life-threatening injuries and illnesses, and they typically work in an intensive care unit (ICU). However, to provide these services, critical care physician groups require the proper equipment, technology, and staff training—for them to improve their patients’ health and quality of life, they must have all three of these needs met.

In addition, critical care physician groups with higher numbers of physicians present greater sales opportunities. And, by working out of a hospital’s ICU, critical care physician groups offer a connection to the other physicians working at the hospital, the hospital itself, and other healthcare facilities that the hospital relates to, which could be a bridge to more deals.

Largest critical care physician group practices by number of physicians

Rank Critical care physician group State Definitive ID # of physicians Explore dataset 
Intensive Care Consortium Inc FL 552803 223 Explore
Washington Township Medical Foundation CA 550688 97 Explore
Psychology & Beyond Inc (AKA Frank Perez-Verdecia PsyD) FL 781347 53 Explore
Arizona Pulmonary Specialists AZ 722867 51 Explore
Pulmonary Medicine Associates CA 552865 51 Explore
Pacific Pulmonary Medical Group (AKA El - Bershawi Medical Corporation) CA 747915 47 Explore
United Critical Care (AKA Eid Nevada Critical Care PLLC) NV 757306 37 Explore
NuView Health FL 774683 35 Explore
Alfredo Gei MD PA TX 930168 23 Explore
10 Critical Care Medicine Associates Pc (AKA Ccma Beaumont Pllc) MI 927086 21 Explore
11 Pulmonary and Medical Associates of Northern Virginia Ltd (AKA PMA Health) VA 586284 20 Explore
12 InCare Pulmonary and Sleep Specialists MA 1060320 19 Explore
13 West Coast Critical Care Specialists Inc CA 604141 19 Explore
14 Salem Chest Specialists NC 607912 17 Explore
15 Pittsburgh Critical Care Associates PA 606031 15 Explore
16 South County Physicians Medical Group Inc CA 853750 15 Explore
17 San Francisco Lung & Sleep CA 1027980 14 Explore
18 Hill Health CA 872066 13 Explore
19 Pediatric Cardiac Intensivists of North Texas TX 1025938 12 Explore
20 Pulmonary Consultants of San Antonio PA TX 638324 12 Explore

Fig. 1 Data is from the Definitive Healthcare PhysicianGroupView product. The number of practices represents only those listed as “active” in our database as of August 2024.

What is the largest critical care physician group in the U.S.?

Intensive Care Consortium Inc. is the largest critical care physician group in the country based on the number of physicians, with 223 physicians. They are affiliated with the HCA Healthcare IDN, which is the IDN with the most physician group affiliations. Of the over 150 physician groups that HCA Healthcare is associated with, Intensive Care Consortium Inc. is one of the largest based on its number of affiliated physicians.

Washington Township Medical Foundation has the second-largest number of physicians, with 97 physicians.

Finally, Psychology & Beyond Inc. has the third-highest number of physicians, with 53 physicians.

The more physicians a critical care group has, the more patients they can serve. Thus, by targeting large physician groups, your product, technology, or service makes a genuine difference in the healthcare system.

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