Cost of Health Care

A good example of our fucked up health care system. The two administrators of the new clinic get $164,000 in salaries while two actual health care providers get $100,303.

Also of note, this is taking place in the middle of in the anti-federal-government, evangelical, anti-Obamacare, TeaBagistan section of Indiana where they hate government handouts and it is being paid for by a Federal grant.

By a 4-2 vote, Wayne County’s Personnel Committee this week approved the salaries for key positions at the Wayne County Community Health Center under its new Federally Qualified Health Center status.

The split vote came on salary proposals for health department Executive Director Eric Coulter, who also will be the health center’s executive director, and health center Supervisor of Operations Kim Flanigan, who also will become the facility’s chief operating officer.

The committee approved a pay increase for Coulter of 17.4 percent from $78,382 per year to $95,000. Flanigan’s increase is 20 percent, from $55,000 to $69,000.

The increases reflect compensation for additional responsibilities and to make their pay commensurate with what professionals are earning in similar jobs in the industry.

Five other clinic staff will receive increases ranging from 5 to 7 percent.

The personnel committee, which is made up of Wayne County Council members, also approved two new positions for the health center, a nurse practitioner who would earn $75,000 and a medical assistant who would earn $25,303.

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 The federal status promises $1.19 million in reimbursements for services to the local health center over the next 22 months, Coulter said. That amount is expected to increase by about $600,000 per year in the years ahead, he said. 

The federal grant, which requires key personnel in several positions at the center, will pay for most of the increases and the new positions

Richmond Indiana Pal-Item September 5, 2015