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Compensation Issues

MD Ranger, a physician compensation benchmarking firm based in Burlingame, Calif., released its third annual physician contract benchmark report, which details physician compensation rates for on-call coverage, hospital-based physician services and other contracted areas.

As physicians take on more administrative and nonclinical duties, compensation levels and stipends for those duties continue to change, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data.

Although top-earning physician specialties had similar compensation figures from 2010 to 2011, physician compensation declined overall, according to Medscape's 2012 Physician Compensation Report, which was released yesterday.

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The following 48 statistics detail the base salary, incentive/bonus/stock award compensation and total compensation of CEOs and CFOs of the largest for-profit hospital companies in the United States. All figures were paid to the executives in 2011 and were based…

The total compensation of Bill Carpenter, chairman and CEO of Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, reached $7.73 million in 2011 — a 5.5 percent drop from the $8.15 million he made in 2010, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and…

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