CRNAs Report Median Compensation 69% Greater Than Nurse Practitioners

Certified registered nurse anesthetists make roughly 68.8 percent more in median compensation compared with nurse practitioners, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."

The survey data looked at compensation for three types of non-physician providers: CRNAs, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Here are some of the key findings on those non-physician providers:

•    In 2010, median compensation was $151,539 for CRNAs, $96,408 for PAs and $89,800 for nurse practitioners.
•    Non-physician providers made the most in the western part of the country, as median compensation was $160,045 for CRNAs, $100,132 for PAs and $94,482 for nurse practitioners.
•    CRNAs reported higher compensation in hospital-owned practices while PAs and nurse practitioners reported higher compensation in non-hospital-owned groups.
•    CRNAs working in a multispecialty group reported a 6.1 percent increase compared with CRNAs working in a single-specialty practice. PAs and nurse practitioners reported similar compensation between multi- and single-specialty groups.

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