Physician assistant compensation is rising in 2026, but emergency medicine, gastroenterology and hematology and oncology specialists are outpacing the field with pay jumps of 6% to nearly 10% in a single year. The areas, industries and specialties where physician assistants…
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Auto insurance provider Geico has accused two New York physician groups and the physician who owned them of billing the insurer more than $2 million for auto-accident treatments the company says were medically unnecessary or, in many instances, never performed…
Sanjiv Kaul, MD, a longtime cardiologist and former director of Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cardiovascular Institute, alleges the university illegally cut his pay and then retaliated against him after he sued, The Oregonian reported July 26. According…
Orthopedic surgery is the first medical specialty to average more than $600,000 in annual pay, according to Medscape’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.“ The report is based on responses from 5,916 physicians surveyed from Sept. 5 to Dec. 17, 2025. Five…
Physician autonomy — both in clinical and organizational decision-making — has become a flashpoint across healthcare as the system becomes more consolidated, politicized and influenced by non-clinical stakeholders. Sixty-five percent of self-employed physicians said autonomy was very important to them…
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Reimbursement math, Stark law enforcement and a push for pay transparency are colliding to change how physicians get paid this year. Here are five things to know about the forces behind physician compensation in 2026. 1. Physicians are working more…
North Dakota has the highest hourly mean wage for physicians in the U.S., and remains on top when adjusting for cost of living, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Below are the mean annual and hourly…
The average signing bonus for physicians is nearly $40,000, according to a report from AMN Healthcare. The “2025 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” collected data from 1,420 permanent physician and advanced practitioner recruitment requests from April 1,…
New Jersey has the highest annual median wage for physician assistants of any state, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Below are the annual median wages for physician assistants for all 50 states and Washington,…
For most of the past decade, health systems have treated a bigger salary offer as the best way to win a physician search, but new survey data suggests that approach is running into a ceiling physicians themselves are setting. CHG…