Compensation Issues

Over the past 12 months, advanced practice clinicians received a median salary increase of 3 percent and an average salary boost of 3.9 percent, according to the 2012 Advanced Practice Clinician Compensation and Pay Practices Survey.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, based in Little Rock, has agreed to pay former CFO Melony Goodhand $312,000 over the next year to communicate with the academic medical center as it transitions to a new CFO, according to an…

Here are the 11 latest hospital executive and physician compensation stories from the past month, starting with the most recent.

For more than two decades, Warren Forgey has worked in the financial department of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind., and lately his work has captured the hospital finance industry's attention.

For hospital and health system executives, salaries and total compensation continue to meet the critical eye of the public, employees and other community stakeholders, and this issue will not dissipate in the near term.

For the past couple years, Richard Jones has led the financial direction of The Reading (Pa.) Hospital and Medical Center as CFO, and with more than 30 years of healthcare experience, he has been a financial cornerstone of the local…

Across various-sized hospitals and health systems, CFOs in the 50th percentile earned roughly $227,700, on average, in total cash compensation, according to Mercer's 2012 integrated health networks compensation survey.

Effective March 2013, Brian Balutanski serves as CFO of Chestnut Hill Health System in Philadelphia, which includes Chestnut Hill Hospital.

For non-profit hospital and health system executives, Form 990s are a great tool to offer transparency to their communities.

Some of the biggest names in the hospital industry grace CFO Gary Terrinoni's résumé: Johns Hopkins Health System and University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, MedStar Health in Columbia, Md., Jefferson Health System in Philadelphia and Richmond University Medical…