The speed at which healthcare leaders transition their organizations from a volume-based healthcare model to a value-based system differs widely. While some organizations created accountable care organizations and similar models, many others continue to operate based on volume, which remains…
Compensation Issues
Health systems have been on a physician group-acquiring frenzy in recent years anticipating more hospital referrals and ancillary service as well as better positioning for population health initiatives, but for many, that comes at a steep price.
Medscape has released its annual report on physician compensation, and the three highest-paid specialties remain as orthopedics, cardiology and radiology for 2013.
The following 78 statistics detail the base salary, incentive/bonus/stock award compensation and total compensation of the CEOs and CFOs of the largest for-profit, acute-care hospital companies in the United States.
Salaries of IT professionals in the hospital and healthcare sector lag behind other industries, but the demand for qualified health IT employees continues to surge, according to a salary survey from InformationWeek.
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At Hospital Corporation of America's annual meeting, an overwhelming amount of shareholders — roughly 98 percent — approved the pay packages of the company's top executives in a nonbinding vote.
The total average compensation for full-time anesthesiologists is roughly $456,000, and the average gross revenue per anesthesiologist is almost three times that amount.
Bill Carpenter, chairman and CEO of Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, made $8.96 million in fiscal year 2012 — a 16 percent increase from $7.73 million he earned in 2011, according to a proxy disclosure filed with the U.S. Securities and…
Bill Walker, CEO of Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Ga., recently received a 3 percent salary hike and a 10 percent bonus, according to a Post-Searchlight report.
On-call rates for physicians vary depending on specialty, and surgical specialists usually receive on-call pay that is eight times higher than primary care physicians, according to a recent compensation survey from MGMA.