mea culpa.
I wasn't reporting on how the "pediatric specialist" was trained, I was trying to help the poster looking for good info about how they are viewed in the"market" for compensation .
"Anecdotal data"?
"My" data is from the national Medical Group Management Association's annual
Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey - the leading report on physician compensation in the country for decades, used by most medical employers and courts, which lists all pediatric-related specialties under Pediatric Specialties, not under Surgical Specialties, for compensation statistical comparison. For $765 you can buy the report and verify this for yourself. Page 165.
As to compensation comparisons; of all 31 "pediatric specialties" representing data on thousands of physicians, (including pediatric surgeons per the MGMA approach), the only ones earning less than general pediatrics in the median 2014 MGMA report are adolescent medicine, pediatric allergy, child development, endocrinology, genetics, hospitalist, infections disease, and urgent care. So only 7 of the 22 non-surgical ped specialties earn less than general pediatricians by their definition. Not that that's the way I think things should be, but that's what the data shows.
I'm also a participant in the National Society of Certified Healthcare Business Consultant's
Physician Statistics Reports, which is by far the best report available on itemized overhead in ped practices, which reports that the average reporting general pediatrician's compensation last year was $275,607. But I would suggest that those pediatricians don't have "average" data, since they have to have a practice management expert consultant or CPA in order to submit the data, so they likely perform better fiscally.
Note that Medscape data is self-reported, and un-verified, unlike the other two reports above. I would argue that income for self-employed peds reporting to Medscape might be down (which is curious given the PPACA bonuses), but overall salaries for employed peds is up due to the competition for employees created by PPACA ("ObamaCare") ACOs.It will be interesting to see the impact of the loss of the 2013-14 increased reimbursement created by PPACA, when the 2015 data is in. I'm afraid its going to cause many more independent practices to fold.
I have started, negotiated employment, brokered, and business-trained hundreds of pediatricians of many types over the last 30 years, so have plenty of "street knowledge" to back up my understanding of the compensation reports, and I stand by it.
If you have better data, I could use it; so please report it, thanks.