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Whether you’re looking into physiatry as a career or you are an established practitioner interested in a new position, compensation is a significant consideration that will guide your decision. This is our guide to everything you need to know about physiatry compensation. Farr Healthcare prides itself on relaying accurate and updated information regarding physiatry trends. Information ranges from compensation considerations, contribution articles from fellow physiatrists and others who work in the medical field and the recent physiatry trends and benefits for the year. With an accurate picture of the physiatrist salary landscape, you can confidently approach negotiations and ensure you will receive a physical medicine and rehabilitation salary on par with your skills and experience.
Spine Physiatry Compensation
A practicing physiatrist recently asked me about the best resources for interventional physiatry compensation information.  Here’s what I told him: The best resource is the Medical Group Management Association’s compensation survey.  The 2023 MGMA Compensation & Production Report (which is compiled based on 2022 data) estimates that the average PM&R salary is around $325,429. https://physiciansthrive.com/physician-compensation/physiatrist-palary-your-guide-to-compensation-in-physicial-medicine-and-rehabilitation.You might...
Physiatry Compensation and Bonus – RVU-based versus Income-based
With RVU-based compensation and bonus, either the practice or the employee may be shortchanged, as follows: Practice has many low-reimbursing payors – Practice is short-changed In practices with many self-pay (often becomes no-pay) or Medicaid patients (with its lower reimbursement), the practice may be shortchanged by tying compensation and bonuses to RVUs. Although the employed...
Executive Physiatry Medical Director Compensation
Recently a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician asked me the average compensation for an Executive Medical Director job.  The vast majority of the physical medicine and rehabilitation positions we represent are clinical, not executive.  According to salary.com, the average Executive Medical Director salary is $359,636 as of December 27, 2022, and the salary range typically...
Compensation . . . It’s More Than The Salary Amount
Physiatry jobs, they come in many shapes and sizes but one factor, cost of living, can make all the difference in the world.  I’ll never forget a physiatrist with an opening in Las Vegas, NV.  He told me that because of the lower cost of living in NV, that a doctor moving from CA to...
The Guide to Physiatry Compensation – All You Need to Know
PLEASE VISIT THE OPENINGS PAGE AS MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE THERE ABOUT COMPENSATION FOR VARIOUS PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES Whether you’re looking into physiatry as a career or you are an established practitioner interested in a new position, compensation is a significant consideration that will guide your decision. This is our guide to everything you need to know...
Physiatry Practice Opportunities
The number of physiatry practice opportunities is less this year because of COVID.  There are sports medicine fellows who are open to general rehab positions and residents who want to do inpatient who are open to outpatient work.  This applies to the urban areas and less so for more suburban or rural areas. There are...