The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.
Compensation Issues
Long Beach, Calif.-based Molina Healthcare will lay off 53 employees in Milwaukee beginning Dec. 15, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing.
The average full-time registered nurse earned $80,000 in 2016, according to a report from Medscape.
Despite physician pushback to adopting relative value unit-based compensation at some academic medical centers — like Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina — an AMC in Florida found with time, their faculty was more satisfied and more productive under a…
The median annual salary for full-time clinical physician assistants was $102,000 in 2016, an increase of 5.2 percent over the year prior, according to the 2017 AAPA Salary Report.
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Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is no longer in-network for Anthem members after failing to negotiate a new contract Sept. 30, according to a Hartford Courant report.
A new Medical Group Management Association Stat poll surveyed medical groups regarding the percentage of their commercial contracts tied to Medicare Part B payments.
Congress has allowed funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program to expire, according to The Washington Post.
Indianapolis-based Anthem will no longer sell its individual health plans on Maine's ACA exchange in 2018, Forbes reports.
The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.