Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare's longtime CEO Trevor Fetter is set to receive a $22.9 million severance package when the company secures a new leader.
Compensation Issues
Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota plans to decrease reimbursement for a standard hour-long therapy session by roughly 18 percent Jan. 1, according to a Star Tribune report.
At least 50 percent of Americans said $100 or less is the maximum they could spend on health insurance premiums each month, according to a HealthPocket poll.
Private cardiologists' compensation is rising faster than their integrated counterparts, according to a MedAxiom survey.
Operating room staff nurses in the U.S. earn a median base salary of $73,279, according to Salary.com.
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A former employee at La Jolla, Calif.-based Synthetic Genomics is suing the company for alleged gender discrimination against her and other female employees, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Employers estimate health benefits payments will increase an average 4.3 percent per employee in 2018, after accounting for payer switches and increased deductibles, according to a recent Mercer report.
A new study from the American Academy of Physician Assistants has found that for every dollar a male PA earns, his female counterpart earns 89 cents.
The median annual salary for chief technology officers in the U.S. is $152,436, according to Payscale data.
The national average annual premium for individual coverage under employer health plans was $6,101 in 2016, according to SHADAC, a health policy research center affiliated with Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota School of Public Health.