The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association have developed an alternative payment model for the treatment of opioid use disorder.
Compensation Issues
Republican Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal called a meeting with Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia to assess how negotiations are progressing.
Physicians specializing in infectious diseases earn less than most other physicians, which causes a number of medical students to opt out of pursuing the specialty, according to a survey conducted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
While negotiations advance between Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, several headwinds persist nearly two weeks after their contract expired, WABE reports.
Despite an increase overall in physician compensation for 2018, African-American physicians make an average of $50,000 less per year than white physicians, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.
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Indiana is the highest earning state for physicians, with physicians earning $334,000 in annual compensation on average, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.
The average overall physician salary is $299,000, including primary care and specialties, with plastic surgeons earning the highest average annual compensation at $501,000, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.
Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini earned $18.8 million in compensation last year when excluding a large sum of options and stock awards, according to an annual proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
UnitedHealthcare opted to terminate its agreement with Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare no later than Jan. 1, 2019, according to recent court documents.
Seventy-six percent of hospitals said they pay their CEO a bonus, with the average bonus for a hospital CEO at just over one-third (33.2 percent) of their base salary, according to a report published by Total Compensation Solutions.