Physician compensation survey data is normally distributed to eager eyes waiting to see the current benchmarks, but a comprehensive look of the actual underlying content in those surveys could prove to be valuable, according to an article from VMG Health…
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Civilian workers — such as nurses, management and other general workers — employed at hospitals earned $38.81 per hour in total compensation this past March, and wages and salaries represented two-thirds of that total, according to a news release from…
From 2010 to 2011, general surgeons witnessed the largest declines, on average, in income and compensation, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report: 2012 Results.
Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis is expected to receive a 10 percent salary raise to $176,000 pending board approval, but that would still put him below the average for the area, according to a Peninsula Daily…
Roughly 82 percent of physicians do not receive compensation from prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions and facility/surgery fees they order, and the largest portion of physician compensation comes from fixed sources, according to a survey from healthcare staffing…
Almost two years ago in July 2010, President Barack Obama signed a 1,408-page bill into law that aimed to reign in the dominating presence of the U.S. financial services sector — the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act…
The former executive at Tri-City Healthcare District in Oceanside, Calif., has filed a legal claim seeking $445,000 in severance pay and more than $1 million in damages from the district, alleging he was terminated because he requested time off for…
For the first time since 2005, average infection preventionist salaries declined year-over-year, from $72,045 in 2011 to $71,395 this year, according to a Healthcare Purchasing News report.
The most common form of on-call compensation for physicians is a daily stipend, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.
Compensation for several hospital and health system CEOs in southwest Ohio have raised eyebrows in the area — former CEO of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Michael Anderson made $4.2 million when he retired at the end of 2009 —…