Compensation Issues

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.

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.

A Jackson Healthcare survey of 1,512 physicians found 82 percent did not receive compensation from prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions or facility/surgery fees, according to a company news release.

University physician leaders were the second highest earners in the state after university coaches, according to a Baltimore Sun report.