Pineville, Ky.-based Southeast Kentucky Medical Center blamed a Medicare error for delaying back-to-back paychecks to its employees, CBS-affiliate television station WYMT reports.

Six healthcare jobs made a list of high-paying, low-stress jobs, with workers in the top-paying healthcare occupation earning $208,000 a year, according to analysis by GOBankingRates.com.

Ranked by descending net worth, here are the top 10 healthcare executives on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of Jan. 2.

Physician compensation is far more than just a number, and several data anomalies may shed light on what physicians' earnings mean, two authors write in a STAT op-ed.

The average salary for physicians and surgeons dropped from $258,039 in 2017 to $250,000 in 2018, according to MedPage Today's 2018 salary survey results.

Orthopedic physicians had the highest salary of 25 medical specialties, earning $414,283 on average, according to MedPage Today's 2018 salary survey results.

Pineville, Ky.-based Southeastern KY Medical Center administrators said an error from Medicare caused a delay in paying employees, CBS-affiliated television station WYMT reports.

After hundreds of former employees at shuttered Schenectady, N.Y.-based St. Clare's Hospital had their pensions pulled, a bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Albany, N.Y., which was affiliated with the hospital, talked with pensioners to find a solution, ABC-affiliated television station WTEN reports.

Compensation increased for infectious disease specialists in 2017 when compared to 2015 data, according to findings published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Twelve of the 15 best-paying jobs in 2018 are in healthcare, according to a U.S. News & World Report analysis.

Physicians snagged the No. 1 spot on a list of 15 highest-paying jobs, with a median annual salary of $200,774, according to an analysis by Kiplinger, which publishes business forecasts and personal finance advice.

In 2017, nurse practitioners saw a 6 percent increase in gross annual income, according to a Medscape survey.

Fresno, Calif., is the city with the most physician pay growth, according to a study from Doximity, a social network for clinicians. 

Nurses nationwide reported earning a median salary of $75,000, down from the $78,000 salary they reported in 2017, according to survey data reported by the Springer Publishing Company.

The American Nurses Association found South Dakota's registered nurses have the lowest annual salary of any state — an added challenge to filling open nursing positions, the Argus Leader reports.  

Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., is raising the minimum wage for all hospital workers to $15 per hour in 2019 and its board chairman, George Norcross III, is imploring the rest of the health systems in New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania to follow suit.

Compensation for all advanced practice provider types, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, increased by 6.6 percent over 2017, and median primary care physician compensation was flat compared to last year, according to strategic consulting firm ECG's 2018 Physician Compensation Survey.

Although pay and benefits for post-acute care nurses have not always matched up to nurses in acute settings, that has changed in the past five to 10 years, said Andrea Devoti, MSN, RN, executive vice president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, according to Nurse.com.

Some of the country's highest-paid health system executives earn up to $17 million a year, according to a Business Journals analysis.

In the U.S., advanced practice registered nurses earn $92,319 on average per year, according to Payscale data.