Hospitalist salaries may be leveling off
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, June 22, 2011
The national median annual salary for internal medicine physicians treating adult patients rose only 2.4% in fiscal year 2010 compared to 2009. That doesn’t sound too bad until you consider that the increase between 2008 and 2009 was 9%. Hospitalist productivity may have also hit a plateau. Relative value units for internal medicine hospitalists rose 1.8% and only 0.02% for pediatric hospitalists, according to The Hospitalist. The Medical Group Management Association and the Society of Hospital Medicine, which collaborate on the salary surveys, aren’t sure why this trend is occurring. The trend could be the result of a relatively young field leveling off or the fact that there are more hospitalists today than three years ago, which narrows the supply-demand gap.
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