In fiscal year 2012, Richard Bracken, chairman and CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, recorded total compensation exceeding $46.3 million — one of the highest, single-year amounts ever doled out to a for-profit hospital executive.
Compensation Issues
Earlier this week, Cleveland Clinic formed a major strategic alliance with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems. The top executives of the non-profit Cleveland Clinic have made several bold, strategic decisions over the years, and as a result, many have seven-figure…
A measure that would cap executive compensation at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., may fall before it hits the courtroom, as the primary defendant has been unable to find pro bono legal services, according to a Los Altos…
The six- and seven-figure salaries of hospital and health system CEOs have made big headlines in the past year, from journalist Steven Brill's investigative piece in TIME magazine to local residents voting to cap executive pay at El Camino Hospital…
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…
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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).