Research presented at the American Academy of Physician Assistants' 39th Annual PA Meeting showed that male physician assistants earn more than their female counterparts, according to a Clinical Advisor report.
Compensation Issues
In the last decade, physicians have increasingly expected their affiliated hospitals to provide compensation for on-call coverage, payments that vary by region, physician specialty and local provider shortages. Here are five trends affecting physician on-call compensation in hospitals.
Data from Equilar show hospital executives are among Tennessee's highest earners, whose average pay increased 24 percent, according to a Tennessean report.
Six non-profit hospitals and health systems in the Jacksonville, Fla., area awarded their CEOs an average of $628,000 in 2009, according to a Florida Times-Union report.
Compensation data show hospital executives were among the highest paid special district executives in California, according to an Orange County Register report.
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Here are 100 statistics on physician compensation, according to various reports.
Physician compensation is changing as hospitals rapidly acquire physician practices and reimbursement levels decline. To augment their earnings in the face of reimbursement cuts, expensive practice investments and an uncertain future, physicians are looking for new methods of compensation that…
Stories on hospital executive compensation have littered newspaper headlines in 2011 so far. In April, Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System came under fire for the $4 million retirement package offered to outgoing president and CEO Sam Downing, while Wayne…
A survey by the Medical Group Management Association found median first-year guaranteed compensation was greater for specialty-care physicians in multispecialty practices than those in single-specialty practices, according to an MGMA news release.
Two hospital district commissioners have questioned the appropriateness of compensation at publicly-funded Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., and have been met by resistance from the other commissioners and hospital officials, according to a King5.com report.