Hospital-employed physicians currently represent roughly half of the physician market, and their compensation levels are highly monitored across the healthcare spectrum.
Compensation Issues
Staffing company Jackson Healthcare's recent survey of several thousand physicians nationwide reveals that 36 percent of them are unable to accept new Medicaid patients due to declining reimbursements.
Executive compensation in the healthcare sector increased 7.8 percent in 2011 — more than any other sector tracked in The Wall Street Journal / Hay Group 2011 CEO Compensation Study.
Members from the Service Employees International Union — United Healthcare Workers East protested outside of Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates' annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, arguing the for-profit hospital operator's executive compensation and profit structure overshadowed patient care, according to a…
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?
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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…
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…