The following physician and hospital executive compensation issues occurred in the past month, starting with the most recent.
Compensation Issues
Salaries for the top hospital leaders appear to be coming back in full swing, as the average hospital CEO received a base salary increase of 4.82 percent last year, according to a survey from Yaffe & Co., a healthcare compensation…
Roughly two years after Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas got rid of incentive payments for top executives, the hospital may reinstate those incentives with performance-based objectives, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
At small and rural hospitals, usually with 100 beds or less, chief nursing officers have median compensation figures ranging from $75,000 to more than $168,000.
In light of a recent news story that showed how many nonprofit hospital and health system CEOs still predominantly receive bonuses based on volume-based financial metrics, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) plans to continue probing how the nonprofit hospital sector conducts…
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A joint report by Kaiser Health News and ABC News published Sunday puts volume-based compensation bonuses for hospital executives under the microscope during the industry's shift to value-based incentives.
Last year, primary care physicians and specialists both said quality metrics began to affect their compensation, a trend both physicians and others in the industry expect will tick upward, according to MGMA's newest physician compensation and production survey.
California's Senate Governance and Finance Committee unanimously approved Assembly Bill 130, a bill proposed by Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) that would prohibit public hospital districts in the state from paying pension benefits to the CEO prior to his or her…
Are scribes really worth it? It's a question that has likely come up for many a hospital administrator. Now a study gauging the cost/benefit ratio of medical scribes has been completed. The landmark project, which actually was titled "Are Scribes…
From 2010 through 2012, compensation for various cardiologists has increased steadily — and as much as 18 percent for some subspecialties, according to MedAxiom's 2013 physician compensation and production survey.