Compensation Issues

Independent locum tenens physicians may earn more money and enjoy more freedom than their agency-affiliated counterparts, if they can manage the administrative legwork alone, according to an American Medical News report.

Executives who want to head lists of America's best-paid CEOs should pursue positions in health insurance, according to a Huffington Post editorial by former CIGNA vice president Wendell Potter.

Carlos Migoya, the incoming CEO of Jackson Health System in Miami, will earn $590,000 a year in base salary plus $107,121 in benefits and $295,000 in potential bonuses, according to a Miami Herald report.

Miami-based Jackson Health System's governing board is expected to hammer out a pay package for new CEO Carlos Migoya on Thursday morning, according to a Miami Herald report.

Academic hospitalists in internal medicine make a median salary of $173,113, earning less overall than their non-academic counterparts, according to a report by The Hospitalist.

Providers receiving on-call compensation are more likely to be compensated daily or annually than in previous years, according to Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Study: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data.

UA Healthcare interim CEO Kevin Burns received a severance package worth approximately $1.7 million when he vacated his position last week, according to a report by the Arizona Daily Star.

Healthcare reform introduced a number of initiatives with the goal of moving payment for healthcare services from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-performance system. However, these changes are trickling down slowly to physician compensation design, which still largely relies on productivity…

Here are 18 statistics on average bonuses for registered nurses, based on data reported by PayScale.

Councilmen Michael Gallagher and David Greenspan (R-Cuyahoga County) are questioning salaries and bonuses paid to executives of MetroHealth hospital system in Cleveland, according to a Plain Dealer report.