Medicare Compensation Rates for Hand and Shoulder/Elbow Surgery by Operative Time: A Comparative Analysis.

There is a high demand for shoulder/elbow experience among hand-fellowship trainees due to the perception that this exposure will improve their professional "marketability" in a subspecialty they perceive as having higher compensation.Using Medicare data, we investigated the most common surgeries from these fields and determined which have the highest compensation [work relative value unit (wRVU), payment, charge, and reimbursement...