ClinicalRate
Comparison

ClinicalRate vs MGMA.

MGMA tells you where physician comp settled last quarter. ClinicalRate tells you where clinical pay and bill rates are today — across 428 roles, refreshed daily.

90days
Typical lag on a quarterly survey

By the time a quarterly survey lands on a pricing desk, the underlying market has moved — sometimes by hundreds of basis points in a single specialty.

Cadence comparison · survey publication schedules
The gap

A survey is a snapshot. Staffing is priced in motion.

MGMA DataDive is the establishment benchmark for physician and APP compensation — and for annual comp planning inside a medical group, it does that job well. But it is built from member-submitted survey data, published on a quarterly cadence, organized around employed-physician comp.

Healthcare staffing runs on a different clock. Bill rates move weekly. Travel and contingent pay moves daily. A pricing desk quoting against a 90-day-old survey is quoting against a market that no longer exists.

ClinicalRate is built for that desk: pay and bill rates across 428 canonical clinical roles — nursing, allied, advanced practice, and physician — refreshed every day, cut by state and metro, and delivered through a UI, a read API, and warehouse shares.

Side by side

Where the two datasets diverge.

Different instruments for different jobs. Here is the capability-level view.

Capability
ClinicalRate
Live market intelligence
MGMA
Member compensation survey
Refresh cadence
Daily
Quarterly
Role coverage
428 canonical clinical roles — nursing, allied, APP, physician
~140 physician + APP roles
Geographic granularity
State + metro
Region
Bill rate visibility
Pay rate & bill rate
Pay rate only
Data source
Placement events, postings, and contract feeds — normalized daily
Member-submitted survey responses
API access
Full read API + warehouse share on Enterprise
Contingent / travel coverage
Core focus — travel, per diem, contract, and permanent
Employed compensation focus
Honest scoping

When each one is the right tool.

We sell against stale data, not against good instruments used for the right job.

Reach for ClinicalRate when
  • You price staffing deals and need today’s market, not last quarter’s
  • You need bill rates, not just pay rates
  • You cover nursing and allied roles MGMA doesn’t survey
  • You want rates by metro, not by census region
  • You need data in your systems via API or warehouse share
MGMA still earns its seat when
  • You’re setting employed-physician comp plans for fiscal-year planning
  • You need an establishment benchmark for fair-market-value documentation
  • Your compliance process names MGMA percentiles explicitly
  • You benchmark productivity (wRVU) alongside compensation
FAQ

ClinicalRate vs MGMA, asked directly.

For staffing pricing, yes — daily pay and bill rates replace quarterly survey lookups. For employed-physician comp planning and FMV documentation, many customers keep MGMA alongside ClinicalRate. They answer different questions.
Because contingent rates move on a weekly clock. In a fast-moving specialty, a quarterly number can be hundreds of basis points off by publication day. If you price 200 deals a month, that gap compounds into real margin.
The 428-role canonical taxonomy includes physician and advanced-practice roles, alongside the nursing and allied roles that surveys largely skip. Coverage depth varies by specialty and market — we’ll show you sample sizes for your roles before you buy.
Yes. Book a demo and bring an MGMA percentile you price against today — we’ll run the same role and market through the live platform so you can see the delta yourself.
Other comparisons

See how the rest stack up.

Price against today, not last quarter.

Bring the MGMA number you quoted last week. We’ll run the same role and metro through the live platform and show you the gap.

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