Physician Compensation

MGMA 1998 Academic Practice Faculty Compensation & Production Survey

This is a academic faculty based practice survey summary of both base and total compensation broken down by rank, geographic area, and the level of managed care. Provides point and click ordering of survey. Limited productivity reporting does include ambulatory encounters and RBRVS units. Selected tables provide comparisons to the private sectors.

MGMA 1997 Physician Compensation & Production Survey

Summary of what is included in the 1997 MGMA annual survey of physician compensation and production report. Provides point and click ordering of survey. Direct compensation, retirement benefit information, geographic and managed care variables, and several productivity measures are covered in the report.

AMA Physician Income Study 1998

This is a summary article concerning the AMA's 1998 release of the Socio-economic Monitoring System Survey and the debate it has sparked among delegates at the 1998 annual meeting. Delegates voice concern that AMA's collection methodologies and the confidentiality of physician income data are addressed.

AMA Unadjusted Income of Physicians Report: Per Hour and Per Visit

American Medical Association provides a report delineated by years of practice and gender for physicians on a productivity basis by hour and patient visit. Is a good historical baseline document.

AMA's Physician Net Income Report for 1982 - 1995

This report traces physician income gains and compares them between male and female physicians bases on the AMA Center for Health Policy Research's Socioeconomic Monitoring System Core Surveys for 1995-1996.

Weatherby Health Care Salary Survey - 1998

Well documented national survey of board eligible physicians in nine regions within nine practice specialties.

AMGA's Medical Group Compensation & Productivity Annual Surveys 1994 - 1998

This site provides limited summary information but does provide a listing with prices for the past five years of the organization's annual survey of compensation, productivity, and starting salaries in medical practices.

Coding & Reimbursement Products by Medicode/MDR/Ingenix

This site contains a listing of products and services utilized by both payers and providers to determine an appropriate compensation schedule for physicians' medical care in an industry that is shifting from a fee-for-service to a managed care environment.  United Health Care's Ingenix division has purchased the Health Insurance Association of America's PHCS database product (nations largest data base of provider charges) and also completed incorporation of both  MDR (third party payers largest data base of provider charges) and its Medicode reimbursement systems and products into its fold for a continuum of physician compensation related products and services. 

Compensation Baseline Fees/Reports, Coding, Conversions & Relative Values by Innervation

Innervation Technology Corporation has a family of physician compensation related products and services available at this web site. Some of the previously published McGraw Hill products have been absorbed and a relationship has been established with St. Anthony Publishing, Inc. Especially note worthy for review are the Baseline Fees and Reports for Physician Services and the RVP Conversion Factors Report.

Physician's Fee Schedule Software by FCMC

This site provides an opportunity to download demonstration software to create fee schedules that reflect RBRVS. The new 1998 version runs on MS Excel Version 7.0 or higher within Windows 95. The 1998 release incorporates the complete 1998 RVRVS, all 10,000 HCPCS CPT codes, and accommodates geographic modifiers for all locations in the country. Individual fee schedules can be modeled using a "percent of medicare" cell, i.e., model 130% of medicare if this should reflect your regional commercial payer environment.