Pay-for-performance programs can harm physicians and patients, most notably when recognizing that physician skill is not the only factor that determines care quality, argue Kip Sullivan, member of the Health Care for All Minnesota Policy Advisory Committee and Stephen Soumerai,…
Compensation Issues
Several major U.S. companies will not ask prospective employees about their salary history at offices nationwide after their home state or city banned the question to encourage pay equity between male and female applicants, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.
A Kentucky resident received a $12,596 bill from Frankfort (K.Y.) Regional Medical Center after her insurer, Anthem, deemed her trip to the hospital's emergency department nonemergent, according to Vox.
A growing number of U.S. states and cities are banning employers from asking applicants about their salary history to encourage pay equity between male and female employees, according to a Bloomberg BNA report.
As CEO incentive pay packages bring attention to transparency issues in executive compensation, a group of directors and chief risk officers from The Directors and Chief Risk Officers Group published a set of guiding principles for compensation committees around the…
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Women earn approximately 80 cents for every dollar men make, frequently referred to as the gender pay gap, but the difference in pay is often discussed under terms with other definitions, CNNMoney reports.
Rocky Mount, N.C.-based Nash UNC Health Care plans to raise compensation for nurses within the next month to keep them from leaving for higher-paying jobs in different counties, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.
As corporations consider how government tax cuts are affecting employees and business investments, economists speculate whether the these cuts are the reason why companies are announcing bonuses and raises, NBC News reports.
As more U.S. states and cities become forced to follow a law that bans employers from asking job candidates about prior salary, Amazon voluntarily pledged to ban the salary question, a policy that could potentially hurt female candidates, according to…
CEOs significantly outpace the average American's pay rate, particularly when examining those leading the top 350 U.S. companies, who earned $15.6 million on average in 2016, according to a CNBC report.