The market for physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) is more complicated now than any point since the pandemic. In 2025, physician pay and productivity largely moved in opposite directions: compensation kept rising, though modestly, even as work RVU gains faded.
Across 23 common specialties, the latest MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation and Productivity data set shows median total compensation still climbing, but the story beneath that increase shows pay and productivity pulling apart.
For the first time in several years, the productivity that has historically powered pay growth moved the other way: Work RVUs fell in 16 of the 23 specialties, and total encounters fell in all 23. Pay went up while measured output came down. Why the two parted ways, ending years of broad productivity gains, is the big question this report sets out to answer.
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