Salaries for physician office and hospital staff rise by 6.7%, Part B News survey finds

Why This Topic Matters

It helps practice leaders, coders, and administrators understand how survey participants describe pay patterns and workplace characteristics across common office and hospital staff roles.

Article Sections

1. Survey overview and respondent mix

   Introduces the survey basis, respondent count, timing, and the general distribution of job titles represented. It also frames the article as a snapshot of a specific reader group rather than a national wage survey.

2. Average and median salary by selected title

   Presents salary comparisons across several common office and management roles. The section highlights how compensation is summarized for selected positions.

3. A look across titles

   Summarizes broad respondent characteristics across job titles, including education, gender, years in position, and Medicare-billing experience. It also notes patterns seen in the survey as a whole.

4. The ends of the pay spectrum

   Describes the highest- and lowest-paid respondents in the survey and the broad circumstances associated with those results. It also explains the survey’s inclusion criteria for salary calculations.

5. Higher education can boost practice administrator pay

   Examines salary variation among practice administrators in relation to education and other broad workplace factors. It also summarizes the typical practice administrator profile reported in the survey.

6. Region

   Compares practice administrator pay across selected regions and notes how location can affect compensation. The section also mentions budget size as another broad factor examined.

7. Typical practice administrator respondent

   Provides a composite profile of the practice administrator respondent, including job setting, workload, supervision, and general compensation characteristics.

8. Salary-boosting strategies

   Summarizes broad methods respondents associated with salary growth and notes the most commonly cited themes. It also mentions examples grouped into an open-ended response category.

9. Business office managers’ pay exceeds $50K when their budgets hit a certain mark

   Discusses salary variation for business office managers based on budget size, setting, and organizational type. It also includes a typical respondent profile and selected salary comparisons by education.

10. Billing managers’ salaries linked to number of docs

    Reviews how billing manager compensation varies with practice size and organization type. The section also includes a typical billing manager profile and salary information grouped by doctor volume.

11. Office managers who supervise at least 21 workers tend to earn more

    Looks at office manager salary patterns in relation to staff supervision and certification. It also summarizes the typical office manager respondent and the broad job factors discussed.

12. Most frequently given raise

    Shows the most commonly reported raise percentages for selected job titles. It presents a concise comparison of pay-raise responses across roles.

13. Whom coders report to could affect their salaries

    Examines coder compensation in relation to reporting structure, experience, certification, and workplace type. The section also includes a typical coder profile and salary patterns by organization type.

14. Coding manager salaries jump when number of docs tops 100

    Describes compensation trends for coding managers and the broad factors associated with differences in pay. It includes a typical coding manager profile and salary comparisons by organizational size and education.

15. A broad-based look at methods to boost payment

    Summarizes the broad strategies respondents associated with higher pay across specialties. It also groups additional open-ended suggestions into general themes.

16. Vacation days

    Discusses vacation-day patterns as part of overall compensation and how time off appears to vary with tenure. It treats paid time off as a non-salary benefit component.

17. Other tidbits

    Highlights miscellaneous survey observations about respondent duties, states, work hours, and reported accomplishments. This section collects broader survey takeaways that did not fit earlier categories.