Although the role of physician was ranked the 13th best job for 2023, 53 percent of providers said they are burned out and 23 reported experiencing depression, according to a survey published Jan. 27 by Medscape.

The National Rural Healthcare Association has partnered with Stroudwater Associates to launch a compensation survey for physicians and advanced practice providers for rural organizations.

The American Medical Association recently released a guide for residents, fellows and young physicians on how to manage their student debt. Here are five tips from that guide:

Congress released omnibus legislation in a $1.7 trillion spending bill that halts the planned 4.5 percent Medicare reimbursement cut, which is scheduled to grow over the next two years. 

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has launched full-risk reimbursement arrangements alongside six physician organizations for their Blue Care Network Advantage and Medicare Advantage PPO plans, Healthcare Finance reported Dec. 15. 

Rhode Island is the best state for healthcare, according to personal finance website WalletHub, and internal medicine providers in the state make an average of $279,640 each year — 15 percent higher than the national average. 

More than half of physicians think patients with unhealthy habits should pay more for insurance, according to Medscape's 2022 "Right or Wrong in Medicine" report. 

Payers have increasingly been incorrectly cutting evaluation-and-management service payments to physicians, according to a Nov. 23 report from the American Medical Association. 

Medscape laid out pay statistics for advanced practice registered nurses Nov. 11 in its "APRN Compensation Report 2022."

Independent physicians are more likely to receive their pay from salary than a physician working in a hospital-owned practice, according to the American Medical Association's latest "Physician Practice Benchmark Survey."  

Physician owners are struggling to meet margins as they face skyrocketing operating costs and consistent pay cuts. 

Wyoming is the highest paying state for primary care physicians, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Female physician compensation rose 8.9 percent in the last year, reaching an average of $282,000 a year, according to Oct. 19 data from Medscape.

Female physicians in an office-based single-specialty group practice are paid more than female physicians in any other practice setting, according to Medscape's 2022 "Female Physician Compensation Report."

The American Medical Association laid out four red flags young physicians should keep an eye out for when signing employment contracts in an Oct. 6 blog post. 

Plastic surgery is the highest-paid physician speciality for midcareer practitioners (eight to 14 years) in New York City, the largest U.S. city. 

More than 120 state and national medical associations are asking Congress to reform Medicare's physician payment rates, according to a Sept. 28 blog post from the American Medical Association. 

The national average hourly pay for physician assistants is $55.81 per hour, according to the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey. Wages and living costs vary from place to place, however.

In its "Young Physician Compensation Report 2022," Medscape laid out where young physicians' compensation is rising most.  

Since 2015 there have been three major changes to physician group reimbursements, according to VMG Health's "Annual Healthcare M&A Report 2022."