Ancillary Staff Salaries

A doctor is nothing without help.  We may want you to think we know it all and can do it all but really, we can’t.  How about a surgeon?  Can you imagine one operating without an OR tech to hand them tools in a sterile manner?  For me, pre-authorizations of pharmaceutical drugs or imaging studies are a nightmare and I’m very thankful I have a nurse who helps me with that.

My office is a well-oiled machine.  Each person has a function to assist with the flow of the patient into the office, through it, and out of it.  But, with staff comes the responsibility to provide fair compensation and benefits.  And thus, when this survey  came out by Physicians Practice, I thought it would be interesting to see how much our ancillary staff is making.

I’d like to add one thought though….there are some doctors work alone.  Solo practitioners are a rare breed in the medical world.  These are physicians who truly work on their own doing their own bills, phone calls, pre-auth’s and even cleaning their own offices.

For further details, click here for the full survey.

 
National
Average
Highest
Average
Lowest
Average
Front desk staff$30,400$32,350
Northeast
$26,160
Plains, Rockies,
& North-Central
Medical biller$36,000$36,980
Northeast
$33,541
Plains, Rockies,
& North-Central
Medical assistant$31,250$32,520
West
$27,524
Plains, Rockies,
& North-Central
Registered nurse$55,500$62,816
West
$49,621
Southeast
Nurse manager$62,900$66,288
South-Central
$53,338
Plains, Rockies,
& North-Central
Physician assistant$82,800$86,325
West
$75,000
South-Central
Nurse practitioner$85,000$87,269
Plains, Rockies,
& North-Central
$78,724
Mid-Atlantic
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