Compensation Issues

Here are the top eight physician specialties with highest percentage increases in median total cash compensation from 2014 to 2015.

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office released the salary of Slidell (La.) Memorial Hospital CEO Bill Davis after a state judge denied the hospital's motion Sept. 17 to keep the information private, according to The Times-Picayune.

A study by the nonpartisan research institute RAND Corp., revealed that while women are increasingly represented in anesthesiology, their pay is still nearly 30 percent less than their male peers, according to a Kaiser Health News report.

Primary care physicians this year are experiencing bigger increases in total cash compensation than their specialist peers, according to the 2015 "Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey" from Minneapolis-based Sullivan, Cotter and Associates.

San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California boosted executive compensation by $24 million in 2012, according to a confidential California Franchise Tax Board audit reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

Here are seven notes on trends in CFO compensation, according to a Mercer report.

CFO pay is increasing, and the CEO-to-CFO pay gap is shrinking.

Total direct compensation for CFOs at 159 companies in the S&P 500 increased a median of 6.7 percent in 2014 compared to 5.6 percent the year prior, according to a recent Mercer report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a final rule that requires publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio of the compensation of its CEO to the median compensation of its employees. 

Here are the top eight specialties that earned the most in 2014, according to results of a 2015 survey — based on 2014 income information — from The Medicus Firm.