Here are the nine latest hospital and physician compensation stories from the past month, starting with the most recent.
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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…
State hospital associations are vibrantly active in each U.S. state, but how much do the heads of those associations make?
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March Issue; 2013 Annual Meeting
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) recently spoke out on large compensation packages paid to hospital executives, saying it's a national epidemic of pursuing "talent for short-term gains," according to a Journal Inquirer report.
Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic is a 10-hospital system that offers its own Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans and provided a community benefit of $131 million last year through education, research and uncompensated care.
The average compensation of hospital employees — including nurses, managers, service workers and others, but not physicians — rose 0.4 percent from March 2012 to September 2012, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf).
Hospital and health system CIO base salaries in the 50th percentile were around $300,000 in 2012, according to Mercer's 2012 integrated health networks compensation survey.