tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 30

PHYSICIAN NOTES: Physician Incomes Rise, But Specialty Work RVUs Drop

General surgeons, hematology/oncology physicians see highest pay raise While physicians brace themselves for potentially steep Medicare cuts starting next year, they can at least celebrate their solid pay increase over the past few years. Physician compensation rose by a higher amount than the rate of inflation from 2003 to 2004, according to a physician compensation survey performed by Minneapolis, MN health care consulting firm RSM McGladrey for the American Medical Group Association. General surgeons saw an 8.89 percent raise from $270,005 to $294,000 in median income. Pediatric/adolescent physicians saw an 8.76 percent increase and hematology/oncology...

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