The five states with the highest average annual salaries for health care administrators, according to May 2011 data from the BLS, are: Massachusetts, $112,690; Rhode Island, $112,260; New York, $111,270; New Jersey, $110,100; and Washington, $108,620.
Medicare numbers can be found on Medicare cards and also on much of the correspondence from the Social Security Administration or the Medicare provider. They can also be obtained by visiting a local SSA office or by calling the Medicare provider and establishing the member's identity.
Unless another person is Medicare-eligible only through his or her relationship with you, you are the only person with a Medicare number beginning with 123-45-6789. If you are Medicare-eligible through your own payments into Medicare over 40 or more quarters, your Medicare number is 123-45-6789-A. More on that below. In all, there are 12 letters that may follow the numerical part of a Medicare Claim Number. Another number can follow most of those 12 Medicare number suffix letters.