While individuals with employer-based health plans are evading most of the double-digit premium hikes accompanying ACA exchange plans nationwide, consumers with employer-based coverage still face about a 5 percent hike next year, reports Forbes.
Compensation Issues
Both registered nurses and licensed practical nurses earned less in 2015 than they did in 2014, according to Medscape's RN/LPN Salary Report 2016.
The total median compensation for physicians in leadership roles in 2016 is $350,000, according to results of the 10th biennial Physician Leadership Compensation Survey from Cejka Executive Search and the American Association for Physician Leadership.
The highest-paid physician executives are taking home an average of $499,000 in 2016. It may come as a surprise, however, that CEOs with MDs are not always the top-earning position.
St. Louis-based SSM Health will institute an $11 minimum hourly wage that will go into effect beginning in January 2017.
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To encourage policyholders to use in-network services next year, health plan co-op Community Health Options hiked its deductibles for out-of-network care by up to 472 percent, Portland Press Herald reports.
In a recent article, Integrated Healthcare Strategies discusses the need for improved data due to urgent care growth.
Often individual health plans on ACA exchanges are spotlighted. To holistically understand the individual market, a look at individual health plans sold off the federal exchange is warranted.
Pittsburgh-based payer Highmark will end payments for agents staffed to help individuals sign up for coverage through the ACA online marketplace, reports Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Saint Thomas Health is seeking a last minute contract with an ACA exchange insurer days before open enrollment begins Nov. 1, The Tennessean reports.