8% is total physician compensation including specialities. If you look at total billed physician services it's closer to 14%. The difference comes from revenue

8% is total physician compensation including specialities. If you look at total billed physician services it's closer to 14%. The difference comes from revenue skimmed off by entities that employ or contract physicians. A huge part of that is profit skimmed off by private equity buying out physician groups over the last 20 years or so.