Workers' Compensation Medical Cost Containment Chief pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 70164
- Class code
- 70164
- Pay scale group
- ST 10
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- A3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Workers' Compensation Medical Cost Containment Chief is $89,996 to $136,842 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 70164.
- 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 06/02/1994.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible professional administrative work at the Division level directing a state-wide program to control and manage medical costs and the provision of medical treatment to Workers' Compensation claimants. The employee in this class plans, develops, directs, and coordinates a state-wide certification and review program to insure that medical treatment resulting from workers' compensation claims is reasonable and necessary. Directs the development and maintenance of certification criteria for Utilization Review Organizations (URO's) and Peer Review Organizations (PRO's) to qualify for reviewing the reasonableness and necessity of medical treatment. Directs thedevelopment and maintenance of administrative procedures for reviewing and certifying applicant URO's and PRO's.
Examples of the work
Plans, develops, directs, and coordinates a state-wide certification and review program to insure that medical treatment provided to workers' compensation claimants is reasonable and necessary. Directs the establishment, implementation, review, revision and publication of certification criteria for Utilization Review Organizations (URO's) and for Peer Review Organizations (PRO's). Direct the development and maintenance of administrative procedures for reviewing and certifying applicant URO's and PRO's. Direct the development and maintenance of a hearing process for rejected certification requests and for revocations of certifications for URO's and PRO's.
Minimum qualifications
Four years of professional experience in the field of workers' compensation, or medical cost containment, including or supplemented by two years of supervisory experience, and a bachelor's degree. Education beyond the Bachelor's level may be substituted for the general experience on a year for year basis up to a maximum of two years. or Any equivalent combination of experience and training that included or was supplemented by two years of supervisory experience.
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.