Chief Medical Officer, DMVA pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 37875
- Class code
- 37875
- Pay scale group
- DR 06
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- T3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Chief Medical Officer, DMVA is $272,784 to $314,955 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 37875.
- 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 08/03/2015.
What the state says the job is
This is professional and administrative medical work in the direction of clinical care programs for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The employee in this job plans, develops, implements, oversees, and evaluates clinical care programs for residents of the Department’s veterans’ homes. Work involves developing and modifying department-wide clinical policies and procedures; providing consultation and advice to physicians regarding specialized medical treatments; and monitoring the effectiveness of clinical policy to identify and prevent deficiencies. Work further involves resolving medical requirements issues across all veterans’ homes and advising management staff in the integration of clinical care into department-wide multidisciplinary resident care policy. Supervision is exercised over professional staff.
Examples of the work
• Develops, directs, evaluates, and modifies standardized clinical care policies and procedures for the Department’s veterans’ homes in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations. • Develops, implements, and revises departmental policies regarding residents’ rights, treatments, advance directives, and care planning. • Advises medical management staff in the development and implementation of integrated care policies and procedures. • Consults with physicians at the veterans’ homes to create unique, specialized, and new resident treatments.
Minimum qualifications
• Graduation with a degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathic medicine from a medical school approved or recognized by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine or the Pennsylvania State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and completion of an approved U.S. Residency training program in the allopathic or osteopathic medical specialties of family medicine, geriatric medicine, or internal medicine, and four years of post-residency experience in the practice of medicine, which included or is supplemented by one cumulative year in an administrative, consultative, or supervisory capacity over physicians assigned a direct primary care caseload.
Special requirements
• The employee in this job requires possession of an active unrestricted license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as issued by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine or the Pennsylvania State Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
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 DR schedule.