2025 MGMA Provider Compensation and Productivity Data Report

Unlock access to the MGMA member-exclusive 2025 MGMA Provider Compensation and Productivity data report, highlighting the key benchmarks and trends found in the most comprehensive data set on physician and advanced practice provider (APP) compensation, productivity, and evolving care models.

The 2025 report, "Trends and Benchmarks in Pay and Performance," reveals pronounced shifts in how physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) are working harder and adapting to new dynamics across independent groups and hospital- and system-owned practices. The report builds off the industry-leading MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation data set, based on responses from more than 220,000 physicians and APPs nationwide.

Key Findings From This Year’s Report

• The new normal of hybrid compensation models: Medical practices continue to evolve compensation methodologies, with fewer doctors being paid on straight salary or pure productivity alone. Hybrid models incorporating quality goals, value-based incentives, and performance benchmarks are now the standard across practice settings.
• A private practice productivity surge, powered by APPs: There was a marked increase in private practice productivity, driven by increased utilization of APPs:
  • APPs in private practice reported 39.3% more total encounters in 2024 and 21.86% more work RVUs (wRVUs).
  • These gains contributed to private-practice APPs earning 13.75% more in total compensation than their counterparts in hospital- and system-owned practices.
• Shifting wRVU trends for physicians: Despite gains in APP productivity, primary care and surgical specialist physicians in private practices were eclipsed by their hospital- and system-owned peers in median wRVUs — a reversal of historical norms.

Additional takeaways in this report

• Major compensation trends: Broken out by ownership, specialties, and contextualized against the industry-leading productivity benchmarks. This also includes benchmarks for early-career physician compensation and trends in compensation for newly hired providers.
• Productivity paradox: Private practice physicians are seeing more patients and driving higher collections, but are not always earning higher compensation or work RVUs — a trend explored in depth, with implications for operational strategy and compensation planning.
• Specialty and regional insights: Explore detailed breakdowns by physician specialty, geographic region, practice ownership, and size — allowing you to benchmark your organization against true peer groups.
• Recruitment bonuses: Understand how widespread signing and starting bonuses are for physicians and APPs, and to what extend practices are using payback clauses to protect against "bonus shopping."
• Turnover, Burnout, and Retention: The report investigates the business impact of provider turnover and offers actionable benchmarks and strategies to improve retention in a competitive market.