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…
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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.
A growing number of physicians are working part time — roughly 21 percent of physicians in 2010, up from 13 percent in 2005 — making it all the more important to understand all facets of compensation negotiations at hospitals and…
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The average salaries of emergency medicine physicians fell in 2011 from 2010, but compensation still stayed above $230,000, according to Medscape's Emergency Medicine Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
Executive employment agreements used to be few and far between in hospitals and health systems, but they have grown in usage, at least for CEOs, according to "Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership," a healthcare book written…
Primary care physicians witnessed a 5.16 percent increase in median compensation last year as healthcare reform continues to put a larger emphasis on preventive care, according to the MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.
More than 80 percent of health systems and more than 70 percent of independent hospitals use annual incentives, or pay-for-performance bonuses, to reward executives, but not all incentives are the same among different healthcare leadership, according to a chapter from…