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Compensation Issues

The following are the average compensation rates, ordered highest to lowest, for surgeons in various surgical specialties for 2010, based on the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."

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The Medicus Firm's 2011 Physician Compensation Survey found that in general, compensation was flat from 2009-2010. The average change in compensation from 2009-2010 across 19 physician specialties was negative 0.14 percent compared to positive 4.9 percent from 2008-2009. Steve Marsh,…

Most presidents and CEOs at Boston-based non-profit teaching hospitals earned seven-figure compensation in 2009, but those packages were flat or lower compared with their 2008 pay, according to a Boston Globe report.

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."

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