Objective, “no- fluff” evaluations of Locum Tenens staffing firms based on pay transparency, responsiveness, and contract quality.
Weatherby Healthcare and AMN Healthcare are both major players in the locum tenens market, but they operate from fundamentally different business models, serve different facility types, and carry different conflicts of interest. Weatherby is a specialist-focused locum agency owned by CHG Healthcare. AMN is a publicly traded enterprise workforce company where locum placement is one…
CompHealth and AMN Healthcare are the two largest locum tenens agencies in the country by revenue and facility network. They are also structurally different in ways that matter for physicians — different ownership models, different business priorities, and different negotiating dynamics. This comparison covers what those differences mean in practice, where each agency has a…
CompHealth, Weatherby Healthcare, and AMN Healthcare collectively dominate the locum tenens placement market. Between them they place more physicians than any other combination of agencies — which means most locum physicians will encounter at least one of them, and many will work with two or all three simultaneously. This comparison covers the structural differences that…
AMN Healthcare is the largest healthcare staffing company in the United States by revenue — a publicly traded enterprise operating at a fundamentally different scale and with a fundamentally different business model than the agency-focused brands most locum physicians think of first. AMN is not primarily a locum tenens placement agency in the way CompHealth…
Weatherby Healthcare is the second major locum tenens brand within CHG Healthcare’s portfolio — the same parent company that owns CompHealth. Where CompHealth leads with breadth and volume, Weatherby positions itself as a specialist-focused agency with deeper expertise in hard-to-fill roles, faster credentialing logistics, and more experienced recruiters for complex placements. Whether that positioning holds…
CompHealth is the largest locum tenens staffing agency in the United States by most measures — broad specialty coverage, a nationwide facility network, and decades of market presence. For locum physicians, that scale is both an asset and a liability. CompHealth can open doors that smaller agencies cannot. It can also operate with the institutional…