The gender pay gap for physicians was 26% in 2025, unchanged from 2024, according to Doximity’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.” Doximity collected nearly 23,000 physician compensation surveys throughout 2025, with the surveys completed by full-time U.S. physicians who work at…
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Neurosurgeons have the highest annual compensation out of any physician specialty, bringing in an average of nearly $830,000, more than $75,000 higher than the second-highest-paid specialty, according to Doximity’s “Physician Compensation Report 2026.“ The specialties with the highest average compensation…
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is suing HHS and the USDA, alleging the agencies violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act by scrapping science-based recommendations from the government’s official nutrition advisory panel in favor of an undisclosed group with deep…
Health systems’ investment in employed physicians has held remarkably steady over the past year, according to Kaufman Hall’s Q2 2026 Physician Flash Report, which analyzed data from more than 200,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) across 100-plus specialties.…
New compensation data show the gender pay gap among millennial physicians widened substantially over the past year, undoing progress that had narrowed the divide in prior years, according to survey data from Medscape’s Millennial Physician Compensation Report 2026. The findings…
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How physicians are paid and evaluated can shape everything from where they practice to how they deliver care. Three physician leaders shared the changes they would make, from simplifying reimbursement and addressing payment disparities to rewarding physicians for the value…
Patient advocacy nonprofit PatientRightsAdvocate.org has sued the American Medical Association, arguing the trade group has no legal right to charge the public for access to CPT codes, the system used nationwide to bill and reimburse medical care. Federal law requires…
A physician in Texas was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for operating a medical clinic as an illegal pill mill. Maryam Qayum, MD, owned, operated and was the sole prescriber at Recare Health Clinic in Houston. The clinic was…
In seven specialties, nurse practitioners now average at least $150,000 a year, with the average annual salary for NPs surpassing $137,000. Here are 10 stats on the compensation landscape for nurse practitioners in 2026:
Many physician employment contracts guarantee a base salary for a new hire’s first two years on the job. By year three, that guarantee often disappears, replaced by a productivity-based or hybrid pay model that can significantly change a physician’s take-home…