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44 OUTPATIENT SURGERY 19 most- recruited physician specialties By Angie Stewart H ealthcare recruiting activity is shi- ing toward medical specialties, with this category representing 78 percent of Merritt Hawkins' physician search engage- ments in a year's time. Merritt Hawkins, which operates under AMN Healthcare, is a national physician recruit- ment and healthcare consulting firm. Merritt Hawkins based its "2020 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting In- centives and the Impact of COVID-19" on a sample of 3,251 permanent physician and ad- vanced practitioner search engagements con- ducted from April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020. e 19 most-requested searches by specialty: 1. Family medicine 2. Nurse practitioner 3. Psychiatry 4. Radiology 5. Internal medicine 6. OB-GYN 7. Cardiology 8. Hematology and oncology 9. Physician assistant 10. Anesthesiology 11. Hospitalist 12. Certified registered nurse anesthetist 13. Gastroenterology 14. Neurology 15. Orthopedic surgery 16. Pediatrics 17. Urology 18. Dermatology 19. Pulmonology n 15 statistics on physician assistant pay in 2020 By Laura Dyrda Here are 15 statistics on PA compensation from the Medscape Physician As- sistant Compensation Report 2020. Note: All averages are the listed as the mean calculation for salary and pay rate. 1. Total compensation: $118,000 2. Base compensation: $113,000 3. Productivity or incentive pay (27 percent of PAs receive it): $14,000 4. Annual bonus (50 percent of PAs receive it): $4,000 5. Overtime (35 percent of PAs receive it): $4,000 6. Surgery PA compensation: $125,000 7. Orthopedics PA compensation: $123,000 8. Cardiology PA compensation: $118,000 9. Hourly PA pay rate for men: $68 10. Hourly PA pay rate for women: $63 11. PA pay for CAQ holders: $119,000 12. PA pay for non-CAQ holders: $117,000 13. PA pay for five or fewer years in practice: $109,000 14. PA pay rate for six to 10 years in practice: $117,000 15. PA pay rate for 11 to 20 years in practice: $125,000 n Police: Woman robbed Utah surgery center five times to get narcotics By Eric Oliver B rittney Oliver, 41, allegedly broke into an American Fork (Utah) med- ical surgical center five times in the month of June to steal from the center's narcotics cabinet, the Daily Herald reports. What you should know: 1. Police responded to four previous calls but didn't catch Ms. Oliver in any instance. They took Ms. Oliver into custody June 30. 2. Ms. Oliver admitted to having unlawfully entered the building several times to steal narcotics. She said she had committed the prior offenses as well, according to arrest documents. 3. She stole varying amounts of narcotics the first and second time. She could not find where the surgery center had moved the narcotics the third time, and was unable to gain access to the narcotics cabinet the fourth time. 4. Ms. Oliver told police she picked the practice at random and was stealing the narcotics only for herself. n