Some medical schools are condensing courses and cutting time off from school in an effort to cut the cost of earning a medical degree and encourage more students to take up primary care, according to an American Medical News report.
Compensation Issues
Physician compensation plans for hospital-employed physicians are always centered around "reasonableness" and fair market value, but there are some common practices hospitals can use to build up to those decisions, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
There are roughly 1,327 critical access hospitals in the United States, and due to their unique classifications, compensation issues are not always cut-and-dried.
California's Assembly Committee on Local Government approved a bill that would prohibit taxpayer-funded healthcare districts from giving lavish pay packages and perquisites to their top executives, according to a Bay Citizen report.
Newly recruited physicians offer a lot of potential for hospitals, especially as the scramble for physician practices ensues. Physicians are able to support the hospital's mission of providing quality care across a broad spectrum of specialties, and they are able…
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After learning the board of city-owned Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, Colo., approved a $1 million severance package for outgoing CEO Larry McEvoy, MD, the city council issued an ultimatum, saying the health system's board members should either voluntarily…
Because compensation packages vary so much across physician specialties, there's bound to be both satisfaction and discontent, and in 2011, the overall satisfaction with pay was down across most physician specialties, according to Medscape's 2012 Physician Compensation Report.
Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is expanding health coverage to millions, the minimum coverage people will be required to buy starting in 2014 will have higher cost-sharing than the typical employer-based plan, according to a report from…
Cynthia Dake Brouillette has been CFO of St. David's Medical Center in Austin, Texas, for more than a decade, and she has overseen some of the largest financial growth the hospital has ever seen.
For hospitals and health systems, physician compensation will always be a hot-button issue. Branching out and attracting physicians is a core goal of any health organization, especially with the advent of accountable care organizations, but because physicians go through thorough…