Even though more than half (61 percent) of full-time registered nurses work at hospitals, hospitals are not where RNs earn the highest median wage. RNs working as contract workers or travel nurses earn the most, according to the "Medscape Nurse…
Compensation Issues
Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, a statewide union of the Service Employees International Union in California, has revived a ballot measure targeting executive pay at hospitals, according to a Sacramento Business Journal report.
Here are eight things to know about how physician practices paid their clinical and office staff in 2015, according to a recent Medscape report.
The "Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015," released Wednesday, revealed full-time advanced practice nurses — including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives and nurse anesthetists — earn between $95,000 and $170,000, on average.
The "Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015," released Wednesday, revealed full-time registered nurses earn on average $79,000. That said, RNs in four regions of the U.S. make considerably more than that.
Advertisement
Average pay for nurse anesthetists is roughly $170,000, but the vast majority of nurses make less than half of that salary, according to the recently released "Medscape Nurse Salary Report 2015."
About one in three healthcare organizations considered "ahead of the curve" in incorporating quality measures into provider incentive plans have more than 10 percent of physician compensation tied to value- and quality-based performance measures, according to a recent report from…
As the healthcare industry continues to move from volume- to value-based systems of care, provider pay is following suit. However, aligning clinical compensation models with performance remains an ongoing challenge.
A review commissioned by the British government called on U.K. banks to link executive compensation to the number of women working in senior positions at their companies, according to The Washington Post.
Few physician practices are in business without a team of nonphysician clinical staff and nonclinical staff. In fact, half of physicians employ at least six and up to more than 20 additional staff.