Compensation Issues

Over 26 percent of physicians responding to a post on Sermo, the world's largest online community of physicians, said they have either been forced to close or are considering closing their solo practices, according to a Sermo news release.

Los Angeles County is cutting reimbursements to on-call specialists treating poor, uninsured patients at private hospitals in the county, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

Following an 11 percent drop in health plan membership in 2009, Humana this year plans to cut a net of 1,400 positions, or 5 percent, according to a release from Humana.

Here are regional and historical salary statistics about the average salaries of anesthesiologists, according to Forbes.

Here are 15 statistics about emergency medicine physicians' compensation.

Here are 15 statistics about cardiologist compensation.

Here are 23 statistics about radiologist compensation, including interventional and non-interventional diagnostic radiologists.

A recent report by the Lewiston (Maine) Sun-Journal found that executive compensation at Maine's six largest hospitals was well above the 2006 national average of $490,000, according to a report by WBZO 38 News.

A recent report by data firm MD Ranger found that hospitals in California paid more than $1.6 billion to physicians in 2008 for "on-call" services, according to a report by the Sacramento Business Journal.

Here are six statistics on CRNAs and nurse anesthetists, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists' Fiscal Year 2009 AANA Practice Profile and Demographic Surveys & Database.