Despite working in the same specialty and having the same hours in similar medical practices, women in internal medicine earn 80 cents for every dollar men earn, a recent study covered by Reuters revealed.
Compensation Issues
In 2006, 11.4 percent of private-sector employees were enrolled in a high-deductible health plan. That percentage rose to 46.5 percent in 2016, according to a recent study published in Health Affairs.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants said they earned more in the past year, with 5 percent of NPs saying they made more than $150,000 in 2017, according a survey of advanced practice clinicians released by PracticeMatch.
The former president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island received a seven-figure payout in 2017, despite having left the institution the previous year, WWLP-22 News reports.
Kaiser Permanente Colorado will no longer serve as a Medicaid provider in its northern, southern and mountain service areas of the state, effectively ending coverage for 2,500 patients, The Denver Post reports.
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Last year was the first year physician pay rose by less than 2 percent in over 10 years, the American Medical Group Association's Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey found.
Several pediatric specialists in Austin, Texas, have notified managed care Medicaid members they cannot access services, claiming health insurers are failing to adequately reimburse them, according the Austin American-Statesman.
BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina will offer some members a cash rebate for choosing cheaper physicians and procedures, according to The Herald-Sun.
Morgantown, W.Va.-based Mon Health Medical Center suspended employees' raises for one year beginning July 15, according to The Dominion Post.
Although nurses rank salary as the top factor in job satisfaction, 31 percent of them don't negotiate their pay when starting new positions, according to Nurse.com's Nursing Salary Research Report.