Tom Dandridge, president and CEO of Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, S.C., has turned down a board-approved pay increase, according to a Times and Democrat report.
Compensation Issues
In an usual move, Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System plans to buy advertisements in local newspapers to reveal the retirement benefits of several system executives who are leaving by the end of February, according to a Salinas Californian report.
Sean Whilden, newly hired CFO of Houston Healthcare System in Warner Robins, Ga., will make $215,000 per year under his two-year contract, which also includes a transportation stipend, according to a Warner Robins Patriot report.
Cleveland-based MetroHealth System President and CEO Mark Moran's salary and benefits totaled $695,600 in 2011, according to a Cleveland Plain Dealer report.
No executive at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System who moved to a new role during a management reorganization received a raise — except for interim CEO Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson, according to a Chattanoogan report.
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Four executives at Buffalo, N.Y.-based hospital systems raked in compensation packages of more than $1 million in 2010, according to a Buffalo Business First report.
Many public medical employees earn more than most state governors, whose average salary was $130,595 in 2010, according to a report from Sunshine Review (pdf).
Healthcare organizations are increasingly using different ways to compensate physicians, as 74 percent of healthcare organizations with employed physicians tie physician pay to patient satisfaction, according to a SullivanCotter news release.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently released the state's budget proposal, which included a $199,000 salary cap of taxpayer money for executives of state non-profit organizations, but hospital CEOs could be able to work around that provision if the organization…
Determining physician call compensation is never an easy task for a hospital executive team. On-call coverage payments for emergency departments and trauma programs have increased in the past five to seven years, and this trend is forcing hospitals to look…