8 factors to guide medical compensation decisions

It is not easy to define what medical professionals should be paid. How do you compute the value of a physician? Based on surveys that are out of date, and in a market that is going though massive changes? Based on RVUs or patient load? Or maybe academic degree and specialty certifications? Or even the financial value of the patients being served? After all, surgical patients are more financially valuable to an organization’s bottom line than med-surg patients, on average.

Here are eight factors to keep in mind when making decisions about compensation.