Compensation Issues

Healthcare careers are among the highest paid jobs in the U.S., according to LinkedIn's list of jobs with the highest base salary, with the first nine out of 20 jobs on the list all in the healthcare field.

North Dakota voters approved medical marijuana legalization by nearly 64 percent in the November election. However, state health insurers like Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, Medica and Sanford Health Plan are refusing to cover cannabis medical treatments. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has disclosed it will implement "salary adjustments" for its allied health staff, the Post Bulletin reports, though they won't immediately take effect.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida networked with Retreat Premier Addiction Treatment Centers in Palm Springs, Fla., to provide policyholders access to addiction treatment services.

Payer-provider conflicts, payer finances and an antitrust trial involving two of the nation's five largest health insurers most captured the attention of Becker's Hospital Review readers in 2016.

Interpace Diagnostics, a diagnostic testing and pathology services provider, agreed to participate in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's Center for Clinical Effectiveness program "Evidence Street."

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Arlington-based Texas Health Resources agreed to renew a contract that had been in dispute over a proposed rate increase by the health system and disagreement over the language of a termination clause, according…

The following stories about health insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Tupelo-based North Mississippi Medical Center and Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare reached a temporary agreement to allow more than 50,000 UnitedHealthcare policyholders access to NMMC services at in-network rates, Mississippi Business Journal reports.

The following health insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.