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Over the past few years, primary care wages increased 6%-8.8% (depending on the specialty), with specialties such as radiology and dermatology reaching a four-year high, according to the American Medical Group Association's (AMGA) 2005 Compensation and Productivity Survey . "It's encouraging to see the primary care compensation shift," says AMGA President and CEO Donald Fisher, PhD. "For several years, they didn't see any increase-now they're finally seeing it." The AMGA, which works for the interest of medical groups nationwide, compiled the annual report based on 2004 data received from 197 groups representing more than 34,000 physicians. To ensure confidentiality for survey respondents, the AMGA contracted with an independent consulting firm, RSM McGladrey, Inc., to collect and compile the data.