Medical Xpress July 5, 2024
Pandemic-associated physician revenue recovery in 2021 and 2022 varied by specialty and practice type, according to a study published in the July issue of Health Affairs.
Ravi B. Parikh, M.D., from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues assessed pandemic-related impact on physician revenue (2020 to 2022) and how revenue varied by physician specialty and practice setting. The analysis included linked medical claims from a large national federation of commercial health plans to physician and practice data.
The researchers found that surgical specialties, emergency medicine, and medical subspecialties each experienced more than a 9 percent adjusted gross...