Roughly 30 percent of physicians included in MGMA’s survey said they receive daily stipends for days on-call. Here are 13 statistics on how daily stipends differed among different physician specialties. (Note: All statistics are median stipend figures per day of on-call coverage.)
Specialties
• Anesthesiologists: $1,500
• Internal medicine physicians: $1,000
• Noninvasive cardiologists: $650
• Family medicine physicians (without obstetrics): $100
Medical group type
• Anesthesiologists in multispecialty practices received $760 more per day in median on-call compensation than anesthesiologists in single-specialty practices.
• Neurosurgeons in single-specialty practices received $800 more per day in median on-call compensation than neurosurgeons in multispecialty practices.
• Invasive-interventional cardiologists earned 30 percent more in single-specialty practices than those in multispecialty practices.
Demographics
• General surgeons in the East: $920
• General surgeons in the Midwest: $500
• General surgeons in the South: $854
• General surgeons in the West: $1,000
• Neurosurgeon range across all regions: $1,600 to $1,830
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