Compensation Issues

Here are the 28 latest hospital executive and physician compensation stories from the past two months, starting with the most recent.

John Goodnow, CEO of Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Mont., made more than $890,000 in total compensation in 2011, leaving him at the top of the pay scale for all Montana hospital and health system CEOs, according to a…

This past June, Terry Scoggin joined Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, Texas, as CFO — marking his first professional role as a healthcare CFO.

Roughly 35 percent of hospitals and health systems offer performance bonuses to their medical directors, an 8 percent jump from last year, according to a report from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.

The CEOs of the top three cancer hospitals in the country recorded average compensation of $1.29 million in 2010, according to the organizations' most recent Form 990 and other public data.

Setting CEO compensation is an intricate dance that’s intertwined with overall hospital performance. Boards want to pay a CEO well enough to ensure that he or she is getting the best possible expertise for a very tough job, and they…

Compensation for the CEOs, presidents and executive directors of the nation's highest-grossing non-profit hospitals always represents one extreme of the healthcare pay spectrum, and in 2010, their average pay easily exceeded seven figures.

Over the past three years, more than 86 percent of physicians said income in their practices has been flat or declining, and healthcare reform has played a major role, according to a recent survey from Merritt Hawkins.

AAPC recently released its 2012 Health Care Salary Survey of healthcare billers, coders, practice managers, auditors and educators, and put the data in a five-year perspective of progress from 2008 to 2012.

Since 2004, Kimberly Boynton has overseen the financial operations of Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y. — a 506-bed hospital with an annual operating budget of roughly $320 million.