Raising the Bar: The Need for Increased Financial Support to Sustain and Expand the Community of Pediatric Subspecialists

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Davis, UC Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA. Electronic address: slakshmi@ucdavis.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, CA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.
⁶ AMSPDC and Degnon Associated Inc, McLean, VA.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

Editorial

Satyan Lakshminrusimha et al. J Pediatr. 2024 Apr.

. 2024 Apr:267:113758.

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113758. Epub 2023 Sep 23.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Davis, UC Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA. Electronic address: slakshmi@ucdavis.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford, CA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.
⁶ AMSPDC and Degnon Associated Inc, McLean, VA.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

No abstract available

Keywords: FTE; benchmarks; billing; children; gender equity; salary; work relative value units (wRVUs).

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest.