Compensation Issues

Hospital and healthcare CIOs based in the Pacific region, which includes California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii, have the highest salaries of any other region, averaging a base salary of $232,181 in 2012, according to a survey from the College…

A union representing 2,000 public-based physicians has called out the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation for its pay-for-performance agreement, arguing physicians had no seat at the table to discuss the matter, according to a New York World report.

Keeping good on a one-year-old promise, Jackson Health System Carlos Migoya has donated his $160,000 bonus to the Jackson Memorial Foundation due to the system's improved financial standing, according to a CBS Miami report.

Last week, the board of directors of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems approved several incentive payouts for the hospital company's top executives, including $4.2 million in cash incentives for Chairman, President and CEO Wayne Smith, according to a filing from…

Yesterday, Swiss lawmakers approved a measure that will give shareholders binding control over executive compensation, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

In 2012, CIOs of hospitals, health systems and other provider organizations earned an average base salary of $208,417, which was a slight increase from 2011, according to a survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (pdf).

Here are the nine latest hospital and physician compensation stories from the past month, starting with the most recent.

Male registered nurses are representing more of the general nursing population, and they also earn more money than their female counterparts, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Work relative value units continue to be the most common measure when medical groups create production-based compensation plans for physicians, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2012 medical group compensation and financial survey.

The compensation committee of Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates has approved long-term incentive compensation packages for several top executives, including CEO Gary Newsome, based on the for-profit hospital's profitable 2012, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and…