Compensation Issues

Mayo Clinic will pay back workers whose salaries were reduced because of pandemic losses, and allied health staff will receive a $1,000 bonus payment, according to the Post Bulletin. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will provide a one-time bonus to full-time and part-time facility-based employees in November as part of actions to recognize their service during the COVID-19 pandemic, CEO Sam Hazen said Sept. 17 in an email to workers.

Navicent Health in Macon, Ga., plans to invest $1.2 million to raise its minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour.

Thomas Zenty III, the CEO of University Hospitals in Cleveland, was the top-paid CEO in Ohio in 2018, according to a ranking from the Cincinnati Business Courier.

A pay raise for Palomar Health's CEO, Diane Hansen, sparked a protest by nurses Sept. 15 at Escondido, Calif.-based Palomar Medical Center, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. 

To offset millions in lost revenue from the pandemic, at least 1,200 physicians, faculty and researchers at University of Florida's College of Medicine in Gainesville will lose out on their usual year-end incentive pay, according to The Gainesville Sun. 

U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland introduced legislation Sept. 10 providing bonuses for front-line hospital workers amid the pandemic, his office announced. 

Primary care physicians younger than 40 years earn about $198,000 on average per year, while specialists earn about $302,000, a new Medscape report reveals.

The total compensation for Massachusetts' highest-paid hospital CEOs grew 95 percent from 2013-18, according to a Boston Business Journal article cited by Mass Live.

U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland will propose federal legislation Sept. 10 that provides bonuses for front-line hospital workers battling COVID-19, according to The Baltimore Sun.