A surgeon producing more than 20,000 wRVUs a year that doesn’t fit cleanly into any national compensation survey specialty. That was the challenge in a recent BFMV engagement involving a high-volume hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgeon: no major survey reports HPB as its own specialty line, so work was needed to determine which existing specialty, or blend of specialties, could support a defensible number. A Subspecialty the Surveys Don't Recognize HPB physicians specialize