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Sep 21 2015

A SullivanCotter survey finds that primary care physician compensation increased 3.4% in 2015 and specialty physician compensation by 2.3%, with urgent care and psychiatry seeing the largest increases and anesthesiology, radiology and neurology the lowest.  Orthopedic surgeons had the highest compensation.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/2015-physician-total-cash-compensation-by-specialty.html
Aug 16 2015

According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2013 about 8.5% of primary care physicians were not accepting any new patients; 19% were not accepting privately insured; 28% not taking Medicare and 35% not Medicaid.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6431a10.htm?s_cid=mm6431a10_e&utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=21315518&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9hb8WBMUIK1ScmaacwUK0tbPFFYrqZh4XoY2R-Igvy0w50-jCsROrQ1pRYYYQpIDNKO_-x8WaZb6UV44AS9WoXtf7YI3NftJVFquS0mJrt2lUUnLY&_hsmi=21315518
Jul 15 2015

2016 CMS Physician Payment Rule

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-07-15/pdf/2015-16875.pdf
Jul 10 2015

According to the Medical Group Management Association, primary care doctors earned an average of around $241,000 in 2014, while specialists averaged $412,000; but primary care pay is rising more rapidly than that of specialists.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2015/07/07/doctor-pay-eclipses-240000-as-value-based-model-boosts-primary-care/
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