Here are 13 of the most recent hospital and health system executive compensation stories in the past month, starting with the most recent.
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Wah-chung Hsu, former CFO of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, is suing the hospital for severance pay, according to a Queens Campaigner report.
Maine has nine critical access hospitals throughout the state, and most CEOs of those hospitals have an average annual compensation between $230,000 and $330,000, according to a Sun Journal report.
Here are 20 statistics on compensation for physicians in five common surgery center specialties, based on data from Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2011.
The following article was written by David Kelly, administrator of Samaritan North Surgery Center in Dayton, Ohio, a Health Inventures facility.
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HHS announced that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more than 5.1 million Medicare beneficiaries have saved more than $3.2 billion on prescription drugs.
The average budgeted salary increases for hospital personnel in 2012 are 2.5 percent for hospital and health system executives, 2.8 percent for middle management and 2.6 percent for staff, according to a survey conducted by healthcare consulting firm Integrated Healthcare…
Non-profit hospitals in New York have increased the practice of supplemental executive retirement plans as a way to retain CEOs and reward longevity at the hospital, according to a Crain's New York Business report.
Total compensation for the CEOs of Indianapolis' four largest health systems grew between 15 percent and 53 percent from 2008 to 2010, according to an Indianapolis Star report.
Compensation of hospital CEOs and other top hospital executives, especially at non-profit organizations, is undergoing mass amounts of scrutiny, thanks in part to the new federal standards that require transparency of all tax-exempt organizations.