HCA Holdings Chairman and CEO R. Milton Johnson and the Nashville, Tenn.-based company's Executive Vice President and CFO William B. Rutherford each received raises in their base salary in 2016.
Compensation Issues
Total compensation for middle market CFOs is decreasing, on average, while compensation for those at larger companies is on the rise.
SoFi, a San Francisco-based personal finance company, ranked the nation's top 20 pharmacy schools by highest starting salary for graduates.
Tax-exempt organizations, which include many hospitals and health systems, provided compensation of $1 million or more to 2,700 employees in 2014, according to The Wall Street Journal's analysis of Internal Revenue Service records.
Physician assistants earn an average of $92,460 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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With the threat of nursing shortages looming, employers in many cities have upped salary offerings, leading to some cities having better living-cost-adjusted wages for nurses than others.
Community Health Systems Chairman and CEO Wayne T. Smith and the Franklin, Tenn.-based company's President of Financial Services and CFO W. Larry Cash received lean performance bonuses in 2016 and saw no raises in base salary this year.
Registered nurses earn an average of $71,000 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Eight executives from Louisville, Ky.-based Humana sold a combined 323,648 shares of company stock on Tuesday for $66.4 million, according to the Courier-Journal.
The increasing focus on regulatory issues may already be affecting executive pay within medical groups — and it appears chief compliance officers are poised to capitalize on this trend.