The base salary for a hospital chief medical information officer varied widely in 2011, with the most common salary falling between $200,000 and $300,000, according to the 2012 CMIO Compensation Survey.
Compensation Issues
Although academic hospitalists generate close to or more billable clinical activity — or encounters — than their non-academic colleagues, they earn less in compensation across both main specialties, according to the Society of Hospital Medicine's and Medical Group Management Association's…
The American Medical Association's Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee — the group that makes influential decisions in how physicians are paid by Medicare — has added two spots to represent primary care physicians more, according to an American…
The compensation gap between specialty physicians and primary care physicians continues to grow, as family medicine physicians earned about two-and-a-half times less than interventional diagnostic radiologists, according to a Washington Post report.
In 2010, eight executives and physician leaders from 15 non-profit hospitals in New York's Lower Hudson Valley earned more than $1 million in salary, bonuses and total compensation, according to a Journal News (pdf) report.
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Cleveland Clinic employees are now eligible for partial refunds of their health insurance premiums, which increased 21 percent this year, according to a Plain Dealer report.
In response to a potential ballot measure to cap the pay of executives at Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Hospital, the administration has said the executive compensation is on par with industry standards, according to a San Jose Mercury News…
The Service Employees International Union — United Healthcare Workers West has officially launched an effort that would cap the compensation of the nine top executives at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., according to a San Jose Mercury News…
Primary care physicians have historically been compensated less than specialists in overall salary and benefits, and the same trend holds true when it comes to average compensation to collections ratios, according to the Medical Group Management Association's Physician Compensation and…
Signing bonuses are on the rise, as 88 percent of placed physicians received a signing bonus in 2011, according to a report from The Medicus Firm.