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Compensation Issues

In 2008, full-time certified registered nurse anesthetists made an average of $163,467 per year, and in 2011, that figure is nearly $169,000, according to the 2011 LocumTenens.com CRNA Salary Survey.

Salary levels for physicians practicing family medicine varied last year for hospital-employed physicians as well as subspecialty, and family physicians who practiced sports medicine in a hospital setting had the highest earnings in 2010, according to the Medical Group Management…

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The factors surrounding physician compensation are both numerous and complex. Hospital-employed versus independent setting, primary care physicians versus physician specialists, the fate of the Medicare sustainable growth rate — these are but a few issues at the tip of the…

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