Employers may increasingly offer digital health programs and wellness initiatives among employee benefits next year as the GOP attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and debate healthcare costs, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The average gender pay gap is 27 percent at typical large-scale global organizations, according to a Gartner analysis of Glassdoor's research on employee salary data.

Aetna Chairman and CEO Mark T. Bertolini will reap approximately $500 million when he exits the company if its proposed deal with CVS Health closes, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Healthcare organizations are revising their retirement plans to retain and attract staff and are increasingly updating them to become more like those found in the private sector, according to Transamerica.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions paid four executives a combined $3.8 million in severance packages, defying state officials' orders, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.

Healthcare CEOs see an average of $25 million in benefits as a result of being dismissed during a merger or takeover, according to a recent Alvarez & Marsal and Equilar study.

Seven of the top 10 occupations with the largest gains in income from 2012-16 are in healthcare, according to SmartAsset. 

House and Senate bills that propose to eliminate the tax loophole on deducting performance-based executive compensation may not limit massive executive pay packages, according to a Washington Post analysis.

Non-academic hospital system physicians earn up to $123,000 more per year than their academic counterparts, according to a report conducted by the Medical Group Management Association.

To ensure that executive compensation is working in their favor, investors can take a closer look at how companies are paying their CEOs, according to Investopedia.

St. Charles Health System in Bend, Ore., uses nearly $300,000 from its annual budget to pay 11 board members' compensation, despite systemwide financial strain, according to the Bend Bulletin.

The House and Senate recently passed tax bills that will roll out new taxes on executive compensation but not affect current deferred compensation limits, according to a National Law Review report.

Jackson Physician Search launched the Physician Salary Calculator, which provides physicians with salary, benefit, incentive and bonus estimates for over 20 specialties.

Executive compensation programs are evolving to meet the needs of business transformation in hospitals and health systems, according to a 2017 SullivanCotter survey.

For primary care specialties, the west region saw the highest median compensation values by specialty, while the east region saw the lowest, according to a 2017 report distributed by the American Medical Group Association.

Google updated its job search tool to include a salary feature, according to Nick Zakrasek, a Google product manager.

Many executives at Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health saw pay decreases in the 2015-2016 fiscal year after they failed to meet performance goals, according to TribLive.com.

This year, 77 percent of medical specialties saw an increase in median compensation, according to a survey distributed by the American Medical Group Association.

Millennials are far more comfortable discussing salaries than older generations, according to a recent survey conducted by The Cashlorette.

More states and cities are banning the interview question, "What's your current salary?"