Almost two years ago in July 2010, President Barack Obama signed a 1,408-page bill into law that aimed to reign in the dominating presence of the U.S. financial services sector — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act…
Compensation Issues
The former executive at Tri-City Healthcare District in Oceanside, Calif., has filed a legal claim seeking $445,000 in severance pay and more than $1 million in damages from the district, alleging he was terminated because he requested time off for…
For the first time since 2005, average infection preventionist salaries declined year-over-year, from $72,045 in 2011 to $71,395 this year, according to a Healthcare Purchasing News report.
The most common form of on-call compensation for physicians is a daily stipend, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.
Compensation for several hospital and health system CEOs in southwest Ohio have raised eyebrows in the area — former CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Michael Anderson made $4.2 million when he retired at the end of 2009 —…
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Here are 12 hospital and health system executive compensation stories from the past month, beginning with stories that broke most recently.
The use, or misuse, of Current Procedural Terminology code modifiers in physician compensation plans could lead to unintended cash compensation figures, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
Over the past 12 months, hospitals and health systems have provided a 2.3 percent average merit and market increase to staff-level nurses, and the average national hiring bonus for registered nurses was $3,000, according to Integrated Healthcare Strategies' 2012 National…
The average salaries of neurologists fell in 2011 from 2010, as neurologist compensation continues to stay toward the bottom of all physician salaries, according to Medscape's Neurologist Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
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