Hospital executive salaries have endured many ups and downs before, during and since the economic collapse of 2008. A recent survey from Yaffe & Company, a healthcare compensation consulting firm, pulled data from 267 hospitals and health systems. Sixty-five percent…
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As hospitals engage physicians in more leadership and management models, it may behoove boards to identify specific obligations as they craft physician leadership compensation contracts, according to an article from INTEGRATED Healthcare Strategies.
With all 108 precincts reporting in Santa Clara County, Calif., voters have approved Measure M, a ballot initiative that would cap the compensation of executives at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., to no more than twice the salary…
Last week, the HHS Office of Inspector General published Advisory Opinion 12-15. The opinion concerned whether an arrangement under which an unnamed hospital pays specialist physicians in its community a flat 24-hour shift (i.e., per diem) rate to provide call…
When Elaine Thompson, PhD, became CEO of Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Medical Center and its parent organization Lakeland Regional Health System in September, she earned $662,802 in total compensation for those first four months, according to a Ledger report.
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CMS has released a final rule (pdf), within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, that will increase Medicaid payments for certain primary care physicians to Medicare rates over the next two years beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Here are the 15 latest hospital executive and physician compensation stories from the past month, starting with the most recent.
Hospitals that pay per diem fees, or flat rates, to specialist physicians for emergency department call coverage have been viewed as teetering the line of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, but an opinion from HHS' Office of Inspector General (pdf) ruled…
Maryann Kepple, CFO of Health Quest System in LaGrangeville, N.Y., has one major goal in mind: to improve the health system's operating performance while keeping patient care at its high-quality level.
In fiscal year 2012, SunLink Health Systems Chairman, President and CEO Robert Thornton Jr. recorded total compensation of $732,647 — more than double what he earned in 2011, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.