As the Trump administration has loosened restrictions on association health plans, more small businesses in Nevada have united to to offer insurance to their employees, reports the Reno Gazette Journal.
Compensation Issues
After years of seeing employee deductibles rise, employers are looking for novel ways to cut the cost of health insurance, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The American Nurses Association found South Dakota's registered nurses have the lowest annual salary of any state — an added challenge to filling open nursing positions, the Argus Leader reports.
Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., is raising the minimum wage for all hospital workers to $15 per hour in 2019 and its board chairman, George Norcross III, is imploring the rest of the health systems in New Jersey…
Compensation for all advanced practice provider types, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, increased by 6.6 percent over 2017, and median primary care physician compensation was flat compared to last year, according to strategic consulting firm ECG's 2018 Physician Compensation Survey.
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When diabetic employees switch from a low-deductible to a high-deductible health plan, they are more apt to postpone necessary checkups as out-of-pocket costs climb, according to a U.S. study cited by Reuters.
Although pay and benefits for post-acute care nurses have not always matched up to nurses in acute settings, that has changed in the past five to 10 years, said Andrea Devoti, MSN, RN, executive vice president of the National Association…
Some of the country's highest-paid health system executives earn up to $17 million a year, according to a Business Journals analysis.
In the U.S., advanced practice registered nurses earn $92,319 on average per year, according to Payscale data.
Two Humana executives sold about $3.4 million combined in shares after the health insurer's stock price hit a record high, according to separate Securities and Exchange Commission filings.