Henry- You are not wrong to seek answers about potential compensation before you spend your own time and money furthering your education. Declining reimbursement for anesthesia services is not coming, it's already here. It will get worse. Read A$A President Lema. Anesthesiologists are running to the ICU for financial cover as MDA earning power begins to suffer. Lema predicts supervisory ratios far greater than 4:1 in order to buffer the currently eroding MDA salary. Unlike AAs who are purposely permanently tied by law to MDAs, CRNAs who can practice in any and all settings nationwide are in a much better position than AAs to weather the coming financial storm. State laws already mandating MDA to AA supervisory ratios of 4:1 and in many States 2:1 may be very difficult to change.