Compensation Issues

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.

For the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2011, Carl Whitmer, president and CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare, recorded total compensation of $5.58 million, which includes potential stock option awards, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

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…

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…