# US outpatient care centre employment rose 14.2% from November 2022 to 1,194,100 in August 2026, close to its series high

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20260801-medical-assistant-1
Date: 2026-08-01 · Stage: Labour impact
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/medical-assistant

## Scope

NAICS 6214, outpatient care centres, all employees, seasonally adjusted. The industry is growing because care is moving out of hospitals into outpatient settings, which is a structural shift in how care is delivered rather than anything about AI. It counts every employee of those centres — clinicians, assistants, administrators — and cannot separate them, so it is not a count of medical assistants. Its use on this page is narrow: it establishes that the setting this occupation works in is expanding, which is the backdrop against which the paperwork half of the job is being automated.

## Source

- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES series CES6562140001 (outpatient care centers) — https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES6562140001 (primary source)

## What this means

Care is moving out of hospitals into outpatient settings, and the setting this occupation works in is growing with it. That is the backdrop rather than the finding: the paperwork half of this job is being automated against a rising number of visits, which is why the realistic outcome the page describes is a change in what the job contains rather than a smaller number of posts.

## What it does not show yet

It counts every employee of an outpatient centre and cannot separate clinicians from assistants from administrators, so it is not a count of this occupation. And it says nothing about the administrative half specifically, which is the half with the mechanism pointed at it.

## How to verify it yourself

Count last month's prior-authorisation submissions and how many came back denied. If the denial rate is rising while the submission time falls, both sides are automating and the cycles are going up.


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