6 Recent Stories on Physician Compensation

Many hospital officials are evaluating their physician compensation structure for various reasons: mergers and acquisitions, the move toward value-based reimbursement and the physician shortage, to name just a few.

The following are six stories on physician compensation that were published by Becker's Hospital Review in the last two months, beginning with the most recent.

1. Fair Market Value and Physician Compensation: 4 Trends
Jim Carr, partner at HealthCare Appraisers, details several compensation trends for physicians and explains how physician employment has affected those trends.

2. Physicians Seeing Stronger Compensation Offers During Recruitment: 4 Statistics
Physicians are seeing competitive compensation packages as organizations compete to recruit them, according to a report from MGMA.

3. Practice Location, Size Influences Physician On-Call Compensation
An MGMA report reveals physician on-call pay varies based on specialty, geographic region and practice size.

4. 25 Statistics on Physician Compensation From Medscape's 2014 Report
Medscape's latest physician compensation report reaffirms that procedure-based and surgical physicians continue to make much more than their primary care colleagues.

5. Physician Compensation Considerations in M&A Transactions
Alice King, senior physician compensation and alignment consultant with Towers Watson, says hospitals need to consider how current physician compensation models align with future physician compensation and alignment strategies when going through mergers and acquisitions.

6. Top Paying States, Metro Areas for General Practitioners
Physicians living in certain states and cities make more money than their colleagues in neighboring communities, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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