Chief, Division of Administration and Coverage, MCARE pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 04240
- Class code
- 04240
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief, Division of Administration and Coverage, MCARE is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 04240.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 04/30/2023.
What the state says the job is
This is professional managerial work directing the activities of the Administration and Coverage Compliance Division within the Bureau of Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Fund (Mcare) in the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. The employee in this job is responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating the medical malpractice administration and coverage compliance programs in accordance with commonwealth laws and regulations. Work involves implementing administrative, fiscal, and operational policies and procedures related to medical malpractice insurance and resulting from statutory and primary insurer process changes; managing a liability insurance coverage program in accordance with statutory scale limits; overseeing a program to track and report medical malpractice compliance with statutory requirements of the Pennsylvania Department of State's Bureau of Professional ...
Examples of the work
• Directs the liability insurance coverage program for Mcare eligible health care providers. • Aligns Mcare fiscal operations and claims payments with the requirements of the Office of Comptroller, Treasury Department, Office of the Budget, and BPOA. • Develops and recommends changes to the procedures for collecting medical malpractice assessments. • Reviews and approves the preparation of annual guidelines and forms for assessment collections. • Prepares and issues guidelines and procedures to ensure the compliance of health care providers, medical malpractice insurers, and agents/brokers with commonwealth laws and policies pertaining to professional liability coverage.
Minimum qualifications
• Five years of professional experience managing a medical malpractice insurance program, including one year of supervisory experience and a bachelor’s degree that includes or is supplemented by 15 college credits in accounting or a related field; or • An equivalent combination of experience and training that includes one year of professional supervisory experience in a medical malpractice insurance program and 15 college credits in accounting or a related field.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.