The Hospitals: Medical Director & Administrative Physician Compensation Data Subscription provides raw compensation data for administrative physician compensation arrangements reported by thousands of U.S. hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid.
Hospitals are required to identify compensation paid to physicians for administrative services on Medicare cost report worksheet A-8-2. If time logs are not kept by the physicians, then reporting hospitals perform two-week time studies twice each year to identify the amount of time physicians spend on administrative duties, which are signed by the physician and a hospital official. Under federal law, hospitals are required to retain their time record documentation for four years (§415.60(g)).
HCTadvisor is licensing 12-month data subscriptions for hospital cost report worksheet A-8-2 data with quarterly updates. 
Download Documents Includes:
- Excel data file(s)
- Read Me instructions
- Form A-8-2 copy & instructions
- Excerpt from Provider Reimbursement Manual Chapter 21
- Federal Register 415.60
- Worksheet A
September 31, 2020 sample size update:
| Last Day of Period | Total Admin Compensation vs. Department Size (n) | Hourly Rates (n) |
| 2020 | 465 | 432 |
| 2019 | 16,510 | 14,909 |
| 2018 | 18,298 | 16,581 |
| 2017 | 18,028 | 16,416 |
| 2016 | 9,490 | 8,523 |
| 2015- | 41 | 39 |
| Total | 68,232 | 56,900 |
NOTICE:Normally, over 16,000 physician arrangements are available for the prior calendar year by the following July. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the CMS due dates for December 31, 2019 fiscal year-ends cost reports have been extended twice until August 31, 2020.
Specialty sample sizes (n) from 2016-present
| Hospital Department / Specialty | Total Admin Compensation vs. Department Size (n) | 2016-2020 Hourly Rates (n) |
| Adults & Pediatrics Short Term Hospital | 4,857 | 4,857 |
| Clinic Short Term Hospital | 4,787 | 4,787 |
| Laboratory | 6,460 | 4,652 |
| Operating Room | 4,233 | 3,886 |
| Adults & Pediatrics Long Term Hospital | 3,480 | 3,480 |
| Radiology | 3,339 | 2,968 |
| Respiratory Therapy | 2,493 | 2,248 |
| Intensive Care Unit | 2,095 | 2,064 |
| Electrocardiology | 1,746 | 1,632 |
| Adults & Pediatrics Psychiatric Hospital | 1,627 | 1,627 |
| Cardiac Catheterization | 1,618 | 1,613 |
| Anesthesiology | 1,723 | 1,541 |
| Inpatient Psychiatric Facility | 1,407 | 1,358 |
| Wound / Hyperbarics | 1,120 | 1,045 |
| Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility | 1,041 | 1,021 |
| Electroencephalography | 1,016 | 1,002 |
| Adults & Pediatrics Rehabilitation Hospital | 933 | 933 |
| Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | 914 | 914 |
| Radiology-Therapeutic | 908 | 905 |
| (blank) | 928 | 887 |
| Physical Therapy | 906 | 864 |
| Renal Dialysis | 803 | 773 |
| Labor & Delivery Room | 752 | 735 |
| Psychiatry | 837 | 734 |
| Cardiac Rehabilitation | 731 | 660 |
| Sleep Medicine | 642 | 581 |
| Kidney Acquisition | 505 | 505 |
| Gastroenterology | 410 | 406 |
| Oncology | 431 | 397 |
| Nursery | 397 | 394 |
| Cardiology | 418 | 393 |
| Skilled Nursing Facility | 515 | 368 |
| Clinic Pediatrics | 355 | 329 |
| Cancer / Chemo / Infusion | 332 | 324 |
| Liver Acquisition | 288 | 288 |
| PHP/IOP | 315 | 265 |
| Radioisotope | 246 | 245 |
| Pediatric Intensive Care Unit | 226 | 226 |
| Heart Acquisition | 223 | 223 |
| Family | 274 | 217 |
| Coronary Care Unit | 208 | 208 |
| Ambulatory Surgery | 211 | 201 |
| Pulmonary | 203 | 197 |
| Intravenous Therapy | 183 | 174 |
| Clinic Psychiatric Hospital | 174 | 174 |
| Diabetes / Endocrine | 176 | 168 |
| Pancreas Acquisition | 168 | 168 |
| Blood Storage | 172 | 166 |
| Adults & Pediatrics Children’s Hospital | 163 | 163 |
| Pain | 175 | 160 |
| Ambulance | 195 | 140 |
| Orthopedics | 208 | 137 |
| Lung Acquisition | 134 | 134 |
| Neurology | 148 | 127 |
| Addiction Treatment | 118 | 118 |
| Internal Med / Primary Care | 136 | 111 |
| Vascular | 111 | 111 |
| Occupational Medicine & Therapy | 119 | 105 |
| Hematology / Oncology | 102 | 102 |
| OB/GYN | 107 | 94 |
| Burn | 93 | 93 |
| Surgical Intensive Care Unit | 91 | 91 |
| Bariatrics | 90 | 90 |
| Nursing Facility / LTC | 94 | 86 |
| Cardiac Diagnostics | 78 | 77 |
| Urology | 91 | 76 |
| Ophthalmology | 73 | 67 |
| Dental | 70 | 66 |
| ENT | 75 | 58 |
| Breast Health | 49 | 49 |
| Transplant | 49 | 49 |
| Observation | 48 | 48 |
| Radiation Oncology | 53 | 47 |
| FQHC | 43 | 43 |
| Dermatology | 43 | 41 |
| Rheumatology | 55 | 38 |
| Rehabilitation | 38 | 38 |
| Urgent Care | 45 | 35 |
| General Surgery | 70 | 33 |
| Speech Pathology | 38 | 31 |
| Physiatry | 34 | 31 |
| Cardiac Surgery | 30 | 30 |
| Geriatrics | 56 | 28 |
| ICU Trauma | 27 | 27 |
| Infectious Disease | 26 | 26 |
| Rural Health Clinic | 222 | 25 |
| Spine | 24 | 24 |
| Neurosurgery | 24 | 23 |
| Palliative | 22 | 22 |
| Stem Cell | 21 | 21 |
| Nephrology | 23 | 20 |
| Clinic Long Term Hospital | 18 | 18 |
| Hospitalist | 17 | 17 |
| AIDS | 17 | 17 |
| Hospice | 17 | 15 |
| Fertility | 15 | 15 |
| 11 Other Small Sample Specialties | 1,411 | 80 |
| Grand Total | 62,832 | 56,900 |