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Compensation Issues

Compensation for the top executives at Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare increased year-over-year between 2010 and 2011, as CEO Dan Slipkovich earned the most at $536,482, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Robert Shapiro has been the CFO of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Great Neck, N.Y., for the past 12 years, and he has helped to expand the system's market presence and operating measures by leaps and bounds.

MD Ranger, a physician compensation benchmarking firm based in Burlingame, Calif., released its third annual physician contract benchmark report, which details physician compensation rates for on-call coverage, hospital-based physician services and other contracted areas.

As physicians take on more administrative and nonclinical duties, compensation levels and stipends for those duties continue to change, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.

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Although top-earning physician specialties had similar compensation figures from 2010 to 2011, physician compensation declined overall, according to Medscape's 2012 Physician Compensation Report, which was released yesterday.

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