Compensation Issues

Here are 11 statistics on gastroenterologist compensation by practice situation, according to the Medscape Gastroenterologist Compensation Report: 2013.

CFOs are usually the second-highest-paid executives at rural hospitals, and compensation for rural hospital CFOs ranged from $76,000 to $248,000 in 2012.

Depending on geography, size of facility and percentiles, a rural hospital CEO made between $120,000 and $392,000 in 2012.

The Concierge Medicine Research Collective released new data on concierge medicine in the U.S., based on surveys and polls from physicians between 2009 and 2012.

Here are four statistics on gastroenterology and endoscopy revenue per case in ambulatory surgery centers based on number of operating rooms, according to VMG's Intellimaker ASC Benchmarking Survey 2011. The data was gathered from 375,219 multispecialty ASCs performing GI and…

After neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists, gastroenterologists are generally the next highest-compensated physician specialty, earning upwards of $520,000 per year.

CEOs in the hospital, health insurance and pharmaceutical industries generally have higher compensation figures than their counterparts in other nonhealthcare-related industries, such as technology and manufacturing, according to a survey from executive compensation firm Equilar cited in a St. Louis…

Last week, the Connecticut Office of Health Care Access released its annual report on the compensation of the state's top hospital executives, and it has invigorated many members of the public to call for value-based compensation packages.

While on-call pay for surgical specialists dropped last year, surgeons are still compensated more highly than primary care physicians for their time on-call, according to a Medscape report.

Oncologists earned average compensation of $424,012 last year, putting them among some of the highest-paid specialists in medicine.