Vermont senators are calling on Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board to do more to address pay parity between independent and hospital-employed physicians, according to a VTDigger report.

The national average annual wage of registered nurses was $72,180 in 2016, but RNs in some states earn much more than the national average.

Physician assistants earned an average income of more than $104,000 in 2016, but in some specialties, average pay was nearly $120,000, according to survey data from the National Commission on Certification of Physician assistants.

Stephen Hemsley, CEO of Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group, reported total compensation of $17.8 million for 2016, up roughly 22 percent from $14.5 million in 2015.

Female CEOs at the 100 largest U.S. companies outpaced their male counterparts in terms of average total compensation in 2016, according to a recent report by Equilar.

The professional networking site LinkedIn has rounded up all of the highest paying healthcare jobs in 2017.

On average, U.S. physicians earn $294,000 per year, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2017. However, compensation varies widely in accordance with region and state.

The median annual salary for registered nurses who provide care in emergency rooms is $70,236, as off March 31, according to Salary.com.

Physician pay averaged $294,000 in 2016, increasing for the seventh consecutive year, yet only about half of physicians — 54 percent — were satisfied with their compensation, according to Medscape's seventh annual "2017 Physician Compensation Report."

Many of the highest earners among organizations in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are healthcare sector CEOs, according to a report from Equilar, a provider of executive, board and governance data solutions. 

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services Chairman and CEO Alan Miller made more than $51.3 million last year, according to the company's annual proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In 2017, the median annual pay for infection control registered nurse is $84,944, according to Salary.com.

Average physician compensation in 2016 was $294,000 — but average pay for female physicians and all minority physicians fall below that benchmark, according to Medscape's 2017 Physician Compensation Report.

Physician pay has increased for the seventh year in a row to an average annual compensation of $294,000 for full-time physicians in 2016, according to Medscape's 2017 Physician Compensation Report, which has tracked pay data for seven years.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants both report high job satisfaction and growing salaries, according to a recent survey from PracticeMatch.

While Valeant Pharmaceuticals faced numerous legal and financial issues in 2016, the drugmaker paid its CEO Joseph Papa $63 million last year, reports CNN Money.

The median annual salary for CMOs is $375,075, according to Salary.com.

Indianapolis-based Anthem President and CEO Joseph Swedish's total compensation increased about 9 percent in 2016 to $17.1 million, according to Anthem's annual proxy filing.

Physician assistants in Nevada earned the highest average annual salary of all PAs in the U.S. at $124,180, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rhode Island followed with $114,650, and New Hampshire, North Dakota and Connecticut rounded out the top five.

Humana CEO Bruce Broussard's total compensation more than tripled in 2016, despite the Louisville, Ky.-based company's weak financial performance last year.