Physician recruitment data indicates relative value units, or RVUs, are still the dominant metric for production bonuses in 2018-19, according to Merritt Hawkins' "2019 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."
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Family physicians were the most in-demand specialty for the 13th year in a row, according to physician search firm Merritt Hawkins' annual report of clinician recruitment incentives.
On average, the top executives at the 82 largest nonprofit health systems were paid $3.5 million annually in fiscal year 2017, according to a new oversight report analyzing the top 82 nonprofit hospitals.
Tufts Health Plan launched a program that will pay some of its 1.2 million members to find providers with the lowest cost and highest quality.
The annual mean wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S. is $267,020, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected in May 2018.
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Alaska is the top-paying state for nursing assistants, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected in May 2018.
Nurses trained in informatics can earn an average of $101,160 per year in the U.S., according to job search website ZipRecruiter.
Physician compensation increased across the board from 2017 to 2018, with primary care physicians earning a 3.4 percent increase, specialty physicians earning a 4.4 percent increase and advanced practice providers earning 2.9 percent more, according to data from the Medical…
In recent months, Becker's has compiled average annual salary information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for healthcare professions, including registered nurses, physician assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses.
Across the nation's more than 6,000 hospitals, chief executives made an average annual salary of $242,550, compared to phlebotomists, who made an average of $34,750 per year, according to Business Insider.