It shouldn't come as a surprise that physicians cherish their phones. A 2010 study revels that 94 percent of physicians are now using smartphones professionally, and this number has only escalated in the past year.
Compensation Issues
The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West submitted more than 15,300 signatures to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in the hopes of adding a measure to November's ballot that would limit the salaries of executives at El…
A recent study in Anesthesia & Analgesia found that while 80 percent of anesthesiologists have been involved in an adverse event, and 70 percent experienced some sort of guilt or anxiety even if the event was unpreventable, most hospital and…
Pam Maples, former CEO of St. John's Medical Center in Jackson, Wyo., is currently making $25,000 per month as a consultant as part of her early retirement package with the hospital, but she has not yet provided any "consulting services"…
CDPHP, the largest health insurer in the Albany, N.Y., area, is offering bonuses of up to $111,000 for primary care physicians who keep patients healthy and out of the hospital — yet another trend of physicians being paid for quality…
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North American Partners in Anesthesia announced last week that Kenneth M. Miles will serve as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
Charles Martin Jr., CEO and board chairman of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems, recorded total compensation of $3.7 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011 — a 54 percent increase from his 2010 compensation of $2.4 million, according…
The average CEO salary, bonuses and benefits of the 11 main hospitals based around the Albany, N.Y., area is $603,457, according to a Business Review report.
In 2010, the highest-paid employee of the University of California San Diego Health System was not former CEO Thomas Jackiewicz — who made $819,059 — but Stuart Jamieson, MD, head of UCSD Health System's Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, who made…
High physician salaries in the United States are one of the factors that are contributing to an uptick in international physician migration, according to a report in The New York Times Magazine.