MGMA’s survey contains data on nearly 1,400 medical directors in 266 medical organizations. Here are five of the trends from the survey.
• Primary care medical directors responsible for community relations and/or strategic development reported higher median annual stipends than other primary care medical directors. Those involved in community relations reported an annual average stipend of $25,000.
• Surgical specialty medical directors responsible for documentation and care planning, quality monitoring and/or physician relations reported a median stipend of $36,000 per year.
• Nonsurgical subspecialists with “providers of last resort/call availability” and/or regulation, licensure and credentialing responsibilities had a median stipend of $44,586 per year — the highest of all nonsurgical subspecialists.
• Roughly 50 percent of all respondents said they spent less than six hours per week on nonclinical directorship activities.
• Pulmonary medicine medical directors reported an 80 percent difference in compensation based on whether their duties involved quality measures and monitoring.
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