SPECIAL REPORT: Medicare billers enjoyed an average 9% pay hike in '99

Why This Topic Matters

The report helps readers understand market compensation patterns across common Medicare billing and practice management roles. It provides context for evaluating pay levels, career progression, and organizational factors that influence salaries in this healthcare administrative space.

Article Sections

1. A snapshot of our average respondent

   Introduces the overall survey respondent profile and summarizes general compensation and workplace characteristics from the survey population.

2. More doctors mean more pay

   Discusses how practice size relates to salary across the survey as a whole.

3. Depending on where you live, you may be in the money

   Reviews regional salary patterns and compares pay by geography and title.

4. Profile: See what our survey reveals about office managers

   Summarizes office manager compensation, responsibilities, experience, and workplace setting.

5. It pays to stay: how experience in Medicare billing affects pay

   Examines how years of Medicare billing experience relate to salary outcomes.

6. Some practices reward loyalty, others don't

   Looks at time in current job and how tenure is associated with pay changes across respondents.

7. Examine the profile for those with the title: administrator

   Presents the administrator role profile, including compensation patterns and workplace characteristics.

8. Profile of a biller: Get certified before you get your sheepskin

   Reviews biller compensation and general educational and professional background trends.

9. Profile of a billing manager: Bosses matter more than doctors

   Describes billing manager salary patterns and compares workplace factors affecting pay.

10. Pay discrepancies balloon within the practice administrator title

    Discusses compensation variation within practice administrator roles and associated employment characteristics.

11. 3 more key titles and their pay increases in '99

    Summarizes salary trends for additional common billing-related titles in the survey.