An article in the Spring 2012 issue of Inquiry Magazine (pdf) posed the question: Is compensating non-profit healthcare board members the right path, or is it equivalent to a minefield?
Compensation Issues
In the 2011 fiscal year, John McConnell, MD, CEO of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, received a 49 percent increase in total compensation from FY 2010, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 18, Paul Esselman, executive vice president and managing principal, and Rebecca Kapphahn, engagement manager at Cejka Executive Search, discussed hospital executive compensation.
Marc Halley, president and CEO of Halley Consulting, and Will Reiser, vice president of product development for Halley Consulting, presented at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting on May 17 in Chicago and shared vital components for hospitals to include…
Analyzing 5 Key Compensation Areas: Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Oncology, Orthopedics and Primary Care
Physician compensation metrics are pertinent within the growing hospital strategy of acquiring physician practices, similar to the 1990s, and some specialties have been the cornerstones of compensation and acquisition strategies. At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on…
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Physician compensation accounted for 8.6 percent of total healthcare costs in the United States in 2011 — or $216 billion of the $2.5 trillion spent on healthcare, according to data from the Overseas Employment Development Board and a survey from…
Twenty-two executives and physicians at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center made more than $1 million in 2010, and UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff topped the list with $5.97 million in total compensation, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times…
Christopher Olivia, MD, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System, received $7.4 million in total compensation, benefits and severance in 2010 — his last year as the chief of the financially beleaguered health system, according to…
Although pay and compensation are vital components of anyone's job, they do not have a significant relationship with the overall satisfaction of medical school faculty members, according to an article in Academic Medicine.
The national average salary for staff physician anesthesiologists increased 4.35 percent in 2012 to a total of $334,916, according to a survey from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (pdf).