Physician Compensation Eight Percent Of Healthcare Costs

Physician compensation accounts for roughly eight percent of the total annual healthcare costs in the U.S., according to Jackson Healthcare, an Atlanta-based healthcare staffing and technology company. "At eight percent of total healthcare costs, if physicians worked for free we would still have a serious cost problem," said Richard Jackson, chairman and chief executive officer of Jackson Healthcare. "What this figure shows is that physician pay is not the primary contributor to healthcare costs...

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