Warning To RFK Jr: Mess With Medicare Payment And Physicians Will Fight Back
The starting salary of an orthopedic surgeon in the United States is $565,000. Family medicine physicians, by contrast, can expect a starting salary closer to $250,000, a good living by almost any measure, but a pay disparity that doesn’t strike most experts as reflecting the value, or importance, of these two specialties. If Kennedy wants to address this disparity he should expect significant resistance, as illustrated by recent HHS efforts to increase primary care pay. Read more here