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Compensation Issues

Out of all the different factors that could limit compensation, physicians believe declines in governmental and commercial reimbursement are the most influential, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.

Physicians' satisfaction with their 2011 compensation varied greatly, and roughly one-third of physicians through their income should have been higher, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.

Physician salaries remained relatively flat — and in many cases negative — in 2011, as the average net compensation change across 20 different specialties was -1.7 percent, according to the latest physician compensation survey from The Medicus Firm.

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New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that gender income inequality exists between women and men academic physician researchers even after adjusting for differences in specialty, work hours, academic rank and other factors.

Physician compensation survey data is normally distributed to eager eyes waiting to see the current benchmarks, but a comprehensive look of the actual underlying content in those surveys could prove to be valuable, according to an article from VMG Health…

Civilian workers — such as nurses, management and other general workers — employed at hospitals earned $38.81 per hour in total compensation this past March, and wages and salaries represented two-thirds of that total, according to a news release from…

Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis is expected to receive a 10 percent salary raise to $176,000 pending board approval, but that would still put him below the average for the area, according to a Peninsula Daily…

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