Employed primary care physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, have roughly 10 percent of their salaries tied to the size of their practice and the complexity of the patients' cases, according…
Compensation Issues
David Cordani, CEO of health insurer Cigna, received $12.5 million in compensation last year, not including stock and stock options, which was a 27 percent increase from his $9.8 million pay package in 2010, according to documents filed with U.S.…
In 2011, the average salary of an independent hospital general counsel was 57 percent of the CEO's salary, according to a report from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
The Society of General Internal Medicine announced (pdf) it is starting an independent panel, the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, that will assess how physicians are paid and how payment incentives are linked to patient care.
In a 15 to 5 decision, the board of trustees at Fayetteville, N.C.-based Cape Fear Valley Health System voted to give CEO Mike Nagowski a 2 percent salary raise to $534,732 and an incentive bonus worth $189,669, according to a…
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Henry Kravis and George Roberts, cousins and co-CEOs of KKR & Co., a private equity firm with a vast amount of investments that include Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, each received an estimated $94 million in compensation and cash…
Salaries of hospital executives in the New York metro area are 19 percent higher on average when compared to the national market data of similarly sized hospitals and health systems, according to an article from Integrated Healthcare Strategies.
In less than one month, the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West gathered more than 15,300 signatures from residents in the Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Hospital district to propose a ballot measure limiting hospital executives' salaries, surpassing its…
Antonio Alfonso, MD, chairman of the Department of Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., was the second-highest paid employee on New York's payroll in 2011, according to analysis from SeeThroughNY, a project of conservative think tank Manhattan…
Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, recorded total compensation of $962,467 in 2010, according to the CHA's 2011 Form 990 (pdf).