Rhode Island is the best state for healthcare, according to personal finance website WalletHub, and internal medicine providers in the state make an average of $279,640 each year — 15 percent higher than the national average.
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More than half of physicians think patients with unhealthy habits should pay more for insurance, according to Medscape's 2022 "Right or Wrong in Medicine" report.
Payers have increasingly been incorrectly cutting evaluation-and-management service payments to physicians, according to a Nov. 23 report from the American Medical Association.
Medscape laid out pay statistics for advanced practice registered nurses Nov. 11 in its "APRN Compensation Report 2022."
Independent physicians are more likely to receive their pay from salary than a physician working in a hospital-owned practice, according to the American Medical Association's latest "Physician Practice Benchmark Survey."
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Physician owners are struggling to meet margins as they face skyrocketing operating costs and consistent pay cuts.
Wyoming is the highest paying state for primary care physicians, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Female physician compensation rose 8.9 percent in the last year, reaching an average of $282,000 a year, according to Oct. 19 data from Medscape.
Female physicians in an office-based single-specialty group practice are paid more than female physicians in any other practice setting, according to Medscape's 2022 "Female Physician Compensation Report."
The American Medical Association laid out four red flags young physicians should keep an eye out for when signing employment contracts in an Oct. 6 blog post.