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…
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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).
Eighteen executives across Connecticut's 30 hospitals received more than $1 million in total compensation in 2010, and seven of those 18 have since retired or are currently retiring from their roles, according to a report from The Hartford Courant and…
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Hospital and health system executive compensation is affected by several factors in the healthcare industry, including a greater focus on quality and patient satisfaction, as well as consumers' increasing involvement in their healthcare. As healthcare organizations face the uncertainty of…
Although many executives at the eight largest for-profit hospital companies experienced increases in total compensation in 2011 compared with 2010, base salaries did not fluctuate much.
Nurse salaries increased in the past year following a surge in demand for the profession, according to a UBM Medica survey of more than 1,260 medical practices.
Some medical schools are condensing courses and cutting time off from school in an effort to cut the cost of earning a medical degree and encourage more students to take up primary care, according to an American Medical News report.
Physician compensation plans for hospital-employed physicians are always centered around "reasonableness" and fair market value, but there are some common practices hospitals can use to build up to those decisions, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.