Physicians are seeing slower pay growth in the last year amid economic uncertainty, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2025.” The company surveyed 7,322 physicians across 29 specialties from Oct. 3, 2024 to Jan. 15, 2025, and found compensation increased…
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Annual average compensation for U.S. physicians in four medical specialties surpassed $500,000 in 2024, according to Medscape’s “Comparing Your Pay Against Your Peers’: Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2025.“ Orthopedic specialists topped the list as the highest-paid physicians last year, while…
Mean annual wages at hospitals vary across job classifications. Here are the mean annual wages of 37 jobs within hospitals, listed in descending order of compensation. Data is the most recently available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April…
California has the highest hourly mean wage for nurse practitioners in the U.S., and Oklahoma has the highest hourly mean wage for NPs after adjusted for cost of living, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor…
Three top executives at Universal Health Services, including its CEO, CFO, and executive vice president of behavioral health services, received higher overall compensation in 2024, compared to 2023, according to an April 3 proxy statement filed with the Securities and…
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California has the highest hourly mean wage for registered nurses in the U.S., and Oregon has the highest hourly mean wage for RNs after adjusted for cost of living, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor…
Women were paid 18% less than men on average in 2024 on an hourly basis — the smallest gender wage gap on record — according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. Five notes: 1. The gender pay gap narrowed…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has increased its CEO compensation after the company reported an operating income of $1.7 billion (10.6% margin) in 2024, up from $1.2 billion (8.2% margin) in 2023, according to a March 20 Form…
Physician compensation is due for transformation as the traditional models based on fee-for-service payments and work relative value units misalign incentives and add unnecessary complexity. “[Fee for service] remains the dominant system in the U.S. paying physicians and hospitals a…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems' CEO and CFO saw their total compensation decrease in 2024, according to a proxy statement filed March 12 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.