The average annual salary for a medical information officer is $120,822, according to data from Payscale.
Compensation Issues
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will use $50 million in savings under new federal tax law to lower members' premiums and improve consumer tools used to find in-network physicians and hospitals, according to the Times Free Press.
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems Chairman of the Board and CEO Wayne T. Smith's total compensation was nearly $5 million in 2017. That's 80 times as much as the company's median employee, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan upended its decision to not pay for some anti-arthritis injections, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Tenet Healthcare's CEO Ronald A. Rittenmeyer made $3.7 million last year, according to a recent proxy statement.
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Registered nurses in operating rooms earn $66,390 on average annually, according to the latest Payscale data.
More than 1 million healthcare workers in the U.K.'s National Health Service, including nurses, paramedics and emergency call handlers, will soon receive their first real pay raise since 2010, according to a CNNMoney report.
Surgeons in the U.S. make roughly $252,910 per year, with an hourly wage of $121.59, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In a recent post, Premier Inc. shares an analysis of health systems participating in its QUEST® collaborative using results from a matched cohort analysis of FY18 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The annual mean wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S. is roughly $269,600. However, anesthesiologists in some states surpass the figure by almost $18,000, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.