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.
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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…
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…
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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.