Here are five physician specialties that earn the most for nonpatient care activities and three that earn the least, according to Medscape's 2015 Physician Compensation Report.
Compensation Issues
As investors put increasing pressure on companies to tie a greater percentage of their executives' compensation to measurable results, many CEOs' pay is now tied to performance.
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners recently released its 2015 National Nurse Practitioner Compensation Survey, which summarizes data from 2,233 NPs on their compensation, benefits, practice characteristics and other topics. The following are five findings from the report.
Full-time nurse practitioners are earning more money each year than they used to, according to a survey from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners — moving from an average base salary of $91,310 in 2011 to $97,083 in 2015.
Physician pay rates remained stable across most specialties in 2014, but a few specialties showed significant increases compared to 2013 pay rates, according to MD Ranger's seventh annual physician contract benchmark report.
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An analysis from Equilar and The Associated Press found CEOs of healthcare companies led CEOs across all industries in median pay for the sixth time in seven years, according to U.S. News & World Report.
St. Louis-based Ascension is raising its minimum wage to $11 per hour, what it calls a "socially just minimum wage," according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Physicians of all stripes have steadily moved away from private practice and into an employed model with hospitals, which has had a major effect on physician compensation models, according to Jim Carr, a partner with HealthCare Appraisers.
Here are seven things to know about the average salaries of hospital and health system experience leaders, according to a research report from the Experience Innovation Network, a part of Vocera.
Here are the 10 states in which physicians earn the highest and lowest average annual incomes, according to Medscape's 2015 Physician Compensation Report.