Roughly 76 percent of physician search assignments in 2010-11 offer a signing bonus, up from 46 percent in 2004-05, according to a Merritt Hawkins report.
Compensation Issues
CEOs at several non-profit hospitals outside metropolitan Atlanta received at least $1 million in total compensation during their organizations' most recently reported fiscal years, according to a Georgia Health News report.
The 2011 Healthcare Financial Management Compensation Survey showed the average annual compensation for healthcare CFOs reached $224,500, up 7 percent from the past two years, according to an AllBusiness report.
Hospital CEO salaries at three of the four acute-care hospitals in Erie County, Pa., have been declining since 2008, according an Erie Times-News report.
Retirement benefits have a wide range from physician specialty to physician specialty. According to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data," retirement benefits vary from a low of $10,567 to a…
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Hospital executive compensation is largely based on comparisons with similar positions in similar organizations. Hospital leaders need to distinguish themselves through performance and negotiate with the board to increase their earning power. Jim Nelson, a managing principal of SullivanCotter, and…
Tomi Ryba, who was recently appointed CEO of Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Hospital, will be making $695,000 in base salary when she starts Oct. 5, about $62,000 more than the hospital's previous CEO, according to a San Jose Mercury…
Top executives of Madison, Wis.-based hospitals and health systems earn more than the national average of roughly $630,000 in total compensation, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
Hospitalists had the greatest average annual compensation in the South, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
Hand and foot surgeons earned more when they were in a single specialty practice than a multispecialty practice, and more when they weren't employed by hospitals, according to the Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data.