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Most hospitals no longer ask themselves whether they should compensate specialists for providing call coverage-instead they ask how to structure pay and how much to offer. Although executives are beginning to grasp the answers to these questions for a handful of specialties, overall most facilities are still struggling to find the balance between the hospital's budgetary constraints and physicians' desires to be paid for working the emergency department (ED).