Ted Sirotta has served as CFO of Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, Vt., for the past six years, and he was recently honored as a "forward-thinking" CFO.
Compensation Issues
Physician signing bonuses, once a treat, are almost a foregone conclusion now as roughly 80 percent of physician recruiting assignments Merritt Hawkins conducted in 2011 and 2012 involved signing bonuses.
At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 14, a roundtable discussed "The Best Ideas Now: Key Ways to Improve Physician Owned Hospital Profits." The panel included Larry Teuber, MD president of Medical…
Although some hospitals and other healthcare organizations scaled back overall physician recruiting efforts during the recession and now slow economic recovery, there are several high-demand specialties that attracted higher average income offers last year, according to the Merritt Hawkins "2012…
Women continue to be paid less than men in most industries, including healthcare, but a new analysis finds that between physicians and physician assistants, it might make more financial sense for women to skip medical school and choose to become…
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Of the 50 top-paid government employees in the Chattanooga, Tenn., area, nine worked at the public Erlanger Health System, according to a Chattanooga Times Free Press report.
New Hampshire's director of charitable trusts plans to monitor the compensation of hospital executives more closely over the next year in light of a report that found state non-profit hospital CEO salaries have been rising rapidly, according to a New…
The average projected merit increase for hospital and healthcare staff, or non-management employees, over the next 12 months is 2.2 percent, according to the 2012 National Healthcare Staff Compensation Survey from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
In order to avoid financial penalties and jeopardizing tax-exempt status, non-profit hospital boards and executives must have a keen understanding of excess benefit transactions, according to "Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership," a healthcare book written by…
Stock awards and stock options are prevalent at the headquarters level of investor-owned companies, hospitals included. Here are the largest stock awards for executives at the eight largest for-profit U.S. hospital operators last year.