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Sex-Based Differences in Physician Hours and Income

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By Lucy Skinner, Max Yates, Robyn Jones College
| JAMA Health Forum Conversations
Key Points Question Is family structure associated with the sex gap in physician earnings and hours worked? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 95 435 US physicians, the male-female gap in hours worked was 1% for single physicians, 7% for married physicians without children, and 18% for physicians with children. Male physicians earned 21% to 24% more per hour than female physicians across all family structures.
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Female physicians experience greater earnings penalty due in part to marriage, children

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By Jennifer Southall Verified, Carol L. DiBerardino Verified, Lucy Skinner
| HemOnc Today Verified
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Key takeaways: Female physicians experienced a greater earnings penalty because of less hours worked than men. Female physicians earned less per hour, despite being single, married or having children.
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Hey Pandas, What Were The Dumbest Things You Got In Trouble For? (Closed)

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By Lucy Skinner, Emilie Kempenaers, Jane Alexander
| Bored Panda Verified
#1 I make pride earrings for people and my teacher asked if I could make her bisexual earrings so I was like yeah totally and my dad saw me making them that night and said it was inappropriate and my teacher shouldn’t be “talking about that sort of thing” he yelled at me a lot and I gave her the earrings the next day anyway. Report #2 For being late to school, for having a doctor appointment that morning.
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The Integrity Of MACRA May Be Undermined By “Incident To Billing” Coding

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By Peter I. Buerhaus, Jonathan Skinner Verified, Benjamin J. McMichael, David Auerbach, Jennifer N. Perloff, Douglas O. Staiger, Lucy Skinner
| Health Affairs Verified
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 ended the Sustainable Growth Rate formula that for years had resulted in an eleventh-hour intervention by Congress to avoid drastic reductions in Medicare physician payments. MACRA also established incentives for clinician payments to become increasingly based on value with the intent of rewarding clinicians who produce better outcomes at lower costs.
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