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Compensation Issues

UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen J. Hemsley saw his compensation drop by more than half in 2010, taking home $48.8 million compared to his previous year's salary of $102 million, according to a Hartford Courant report.

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Wayne Smith, chairman, president and CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, saw his total compensation nearly double from 2008 to 2010, receiving more than $20.9 million last year, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In 2008, Mr. Smith’s…

Specialists and generalists have sparred for years on the physicians’ committee that helps determine what each specialty is paid, but generalists have lately been winning pay increases at the expense of specialists, according to a report by the Wall Street…

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