Nurse compensation in the U.S. is influenced significantly by three factors: location, location, location. Population settings and geographic regions in the U.S. have a major influence on nurse pay, according to the 2014 AORN Salary and Compensation Survey.
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The median total cash compensation for physicians has risen across almost every specialty, with urology experiencing the largest pay increase since 2013, according to the 2014 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates.
Nurses' average compensation growth was relatively flat from 2013 to 2014, according to the 2014 AORN Salary and Compensation Survey. In 2013, nurses in facilities with 10 or more operating rooms earned an average of $80,000, while that number grew…
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System has been given the go-ahead by its board of trustees to give the system's CEO Kevin Spiegel a 10 percent pay increase, an action that isn't sitting will with some state lawmakers who believe the…
More and more often, employers are offering physicians perks such as sign-on bonuses as part of their recruitment efforts, according to the 2014 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates.
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Increases in median total cash compensation for physicians were lower in 2014 than 2013, according to the 2014 Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey from Sullivan, Cotter and Associates.
The healthcare business is full of painful ironies. Here's a new one: The insurance plans that now dominate the Affordable Care Act's exchanges may be bad medicine for keeping people healthy.
Hospitals and health systems are moving away from complex, difficult-to-administer executive benefits in favor of streamlined programs designed to withstand scrutiny and enhance organizational stability. More than ever, healthcare organizations are using their executive benefits more strategically — a shift…
Because the Medicare and Medicaid patients who incur the highest costs are those with multiple chronic diseases, documentation, coding and billing rules should encourage better care for these patients than they currently do, according to the study, "The Correlation of…