Bellevue, Wash.-based Puget Sound Physicians will pay more than $410,000 in refunds and interest to low-income patients under an agreement with Washington Attorney General Nick Brown’s office, the Washington State Standard reported Oct. 1. The privately held physician practice provides…
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Nurse practitioners and physician assistants saw their median total cash compensation grow by about 2% from 2025 to 2026, according to a new report from healthcare consulting firm SullivanCotter. The “2026 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey Report” collected…
Physicians leaving residency tend to judge their first job offer by its base salary, while the contract terms that shape their earnings after the first year or two get far less scrutiny, according to a Sept. 29 report from the…
More than 80% of physicians are now employed by a hospital, health system or other corporate entity, up from just 26% in 2012, a shift that has reshaped what physician contracts look like, according to a Sept. 16 white paper…
U.S. physicians earned an average of $386,000 in 2025, according to Medscape’s April 10 “Physician Compensation Report.” Physicians in Canada reported average total compensation of 394,000 Canadian dollars, or about $283,000, according to Medscape’s Sept. 29 “Canada: Physician Compensation Report…
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The average starting salary for all physicians has hit $419,000 in 2025-26, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare. On top of base salaries, signing bonuses were offered in 87% of physician search engagements in 2025-26, averaging…
A federal bill introduced Sept. 16 would do more than bar private equity firms from owning physician practices. It targets the management services organization structure PE-backed platforms have used to operate in corporate practice of medicine states, and it would…
Female physicians now earn $327,000 a year on average, up from $309,000 just two years ago. However, that progress has not dented the gap with their male counterparts, who average $429,000 per year, according to a new report from Medscape. …
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued Cincinnati-based Mercy Health, alleging the health system fired a Jewish orthopedic surgeon because of his religion and race shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The lawsuit, filed Sept. 24,…
Idris Evans, MD, a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, was killed early Sept. 24 in a stabbing at a home in Edgewood, Pa., according to a Facebook post from the Allegheny County Police Department. Dr.…