Compensation and Production Indicators For General Orthopedic Surgeons

Physician Compensation Report, June, 2001

Compensation and Production Indicators
For General Orthopedic Surgeons

                                     25th                75th      90th
                           Mean      %ile    Median      %ile      %ile

MGMA Data
Total cash compensation - rounded to nearest thousand dollars

Overall                     $343      $242      $314      $404      $512
1-2 yrs in specialty        $236      $202      $222      $250      $319
Single specialty            $365      $253      $338      $419      $547
Multispecialty              $311      $231      $284      $360      $462
No capitation               $365      $251      $339      $416      $547
10% or less                 $335      $240      $302      $414      $515
11% to 50%                  $316      $223      $292      $393      $468
51% or more                 $272      $237      $265      $298      $337

Eastern                     $325      $239      $312      $387      $462
Midwest                     $364      $259      $337      $428      $548
Southern                    $393      $258      $366      $428      $640
Western                     $294      $228      $273      $320      $437

Production Per FTE Physician

Ambulatory encounters      3,734     2,742     3,532     4,551     5,646
Work RVUs                  6,834     5,505     6,402     8,231    10,055
RVUs: single-specialty       [*]       [*]     6,689       [*]       [*]
RVUs: multispecialty         [*]       [*]     6,324       [*]       [*]
Compensation per RVU      $49.30    $39.52    $47.49    $55.05    $63.73
Comp. Per RVU:               [*]       [*]    $48.13       [*]       [*]
single-specialty
Comp. per RVU:               [*]       [*]    $47.42       [*]       [*]
multispecialty
Gross charges (000)       $1,175      $839    $1,116    $1,437    $1,816
Compensation to gross      0.318     0.232     0.282     0.358     0.434
charges ratio

Sullivan Cotter Data - Staff Physician
Total cash compensation - rounded to nearest thousand dollars

Overall                     $281      $210      $267      $324      $423
Hospital owned              $243      $165      $225      $301      $373
Group practice              $307      $228      $278      $325      $471
Northeastern                $257      $171      $261      $301      $381
Midwestern                  $307      $223      $264      $355      $477
Southeastern                $256      $188      $270      $314      $355

Gross charges

Overall                   $1,172      $653    $1,053    $1,613    $1,853
Hospital owned            $1,197      $756    $1,074    $1,644    $2,219

Work RVUs

Overall                    6,478     4,718     6,022     8,076     9,845
Hospital owned             6,509     4,174     6,565     8,333    11,106
Group practice             6,280     4,685     5,785     7,999     9,527

SOURCES: MGMA, Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2000
Report Based on 1999 Data. Call (888) 608-5601 ext. 895 to order.
MGMA sample is 1,344 physicians in 242 practices. Sullivan, Cotter &
Associates, Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey Report
(2000) (February 2000 data). (313) 872-1760. Sullivan Cotter sample is
125 physicians. [*] Not in printed report, or insufficient data. See PCR,
4/26/00, for information on source data for these surveys.
Previous items on orthopedic surgeons: (1) a "glance" at basic factors
affecting compensation, PCR 5/01, p. 8; (2) group compensation trends
in 2001, PCR 4/01, p. 2; and (3) group compensation trends in 2000,
PCR 6/21/00, p. 2.