In 2010, both adult medicine hospitalists and pediatric hospitalists reported increases in their median compensation, according to the Medical Group Management Association and Society of Hospital Medicine's "State of Hospital Medicine: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
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Oncologists are among the highest-earning physicians, especially within hospitals and healthcare organizations, according to Medscape's 2011 Physician Compensation Survey.
Carlos Migoya, CEO of Miami-based Jackson Health System, has finished assembling his executive team, but some healthcare experts say the new executives are not being paid enough to fix the health system's massive financial problems, according to a Miami Herald…
CEOs at the largest and most profitable children's hospitals have some of the highest compensation packages in the hospital sector, as most make more than $1 million in salary and benefits annually, according to a Kaiser Health News/Bellingham Herald report.
Male cardiologists in the United States generally outnumber female cardiologists, and they also make significantly more per year than their female counterparts, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
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Last week, University of California Davis Medical Center CEO Ann Madden Rice received a $259,000 raise, and UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi defended the action, saying the cost and time of replacing Ms. Rice would have been far greater than…
Dallas County commissioners sent a clear message to the board of directors at Dallas-based Parkland Memorial Hospital: There will be no raises or bonuses for top executives, according to a WFAA report.
After finding out several top executives at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Corvallis, Ore., received salary increases ranging from 9.6 to 18 percent from 2008 to 2009, more than 75 hospital nurses part of the Oregon Nurses Association held…
Cook County's Health and Hospitals System in Illinois has spent nearly $19.7 million on overtime costs through the first half of the fiscal year, nearly twice the targeted amount, according to a Chicago News Cooperative report.
Executives at Lifespan, a non-profit, five-hospital system based in Providence, R.I., are under heat as the Rhode Island Hospital Union criticized their recently released salaries, according to a Providence Business News report.