Compensation Issues

Physician earning power gets better with age, according to Medscape's "Young Physician Compensation Report 2019."

Male physicians earned $1.25 for every $1 earned by female physicians in 2018, according to data from Doximity, a social network for physicians.

The average yearly salary of a chief quality officer in the United States is $119,274, according to PayScale data.

Female surgical residents have similar career goals as their male counterparts but expect lower salaries, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

Anthem adjusted its fee schedule for some autism treatment in Indiana, a move some behavioral health providers are characterizing as deep cuts that could lead to closures, according to local news station WTHR.

Physician compensation increased significantly for psychiatrists and some primary care specialties from 2017-18, while productivity largely stayed the same, according to AMGA's "2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey."

This year, women gained a slight majority in the college-educated workforce for the first time in U.S. history, The Wall Street Journal reports.

California's Department of Public Health will move dozens of permanent beds from a long-term residential program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to a short-term program in another part of the hospital, according to The San Francisco Examiner.

Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital will no longer provide outpatient behavioral healthcare for patients in New York's Warren and Washington counties, according to The Post Star.

While employees often only pay a fraction of what their employers do for health insurance, out-of-pocket costs for workers are rising, according to CNBC.