Compensation Issues

Primary care physicians appear to be the big winners from CMS' recently proposed rule for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. CMS proposed primary care physicians receive a 7 percent increase in Medicare payments for the 2013 calendar year, and other…

Here are the latest hospital executive stories of the past month, starting with the most recent.

Average CEO compensation at non-profit hospitals in New Hampshire has been rising faster than private sector wages, and a new report from the independent New Hampshire Center for Public Policy has found that while CEO pay is IRS compliant, there…

Merit pay is a major part of many hospitals' compensation plans, but it does not always work because most employees striving for merit pay believe they are higher performers than their peers, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.

Mike German, CFO of Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, Fla., has proposed ending management bonuses and incentives as part of the health system's budget for 2013, according to a News-Press report.

Many anesthesia residents accumulate more than $150,000 in medical school debt and face limited employment options after graduation in an effort to pay it off, according to a study published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia.

The next CEO of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas will earn roughly $950,000, according to a Dallas Business Journal report.

Non-profit hospitals that overcompensate their top executives could find themselves in hot water, both in the eyes of federal regulators as well as their local communities, according to a recent webinar from Venable and Guidestar.

Here is a list of 10 hospital and health system CFOs recently profiled by Becker's Hospital Review.

In fiscal years 2010 and 2011, most top officials at Montana-based hospitals and health systems received salary raises and bonuses as most other salaries and wages in the state and country continued to stagnate, according to a Missoulian report.