Compensation Issues

The 2010 Sullivan, Cotter and Associates annual report on physician on-call pay found that physician on-call pay expenditures have generally increased over the past 12 months. Kim Mobley, managing principal with SullivanCotter, discusses five factors that impact on-call pay.

Here are three statistics on the average salary of medical transcriptionists, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.

In the latest statistics available from 2009, six Cincinnati healthcare executives earned salaries exceeding $1 million a year, according to a Cincinnati Business Courier report.

The decision by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts board members to suspend their payments will do little to fix soaring healthcare costs, according to a Boston Globe report.

Despite facing a $54 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, the University of Massachusetts raised the salary of UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael F. Collins, MD, by more than $60,000 a year, according to a Telegram and Gazette…

Here are 17 statistics on hospitalist workload, pay and benefits. Data shown here is a sample of findings from from the 2010 Today's Hospitalist Compensation & Career Survey.

Newspaper headlines regularly report the compensation of local hospital CEOs in scathing terms. Hospital leaders are criticized for accepting bonuses while their employees suffer job cuts, or community members react with dismay at the six-figure salaries earned by their "non-profit"…

While New York City hospitals look to improve profits by increasing patient costs and cutting services, one area remains seemingly untouched: executive salaries.

Academic faculty physicians in primary and specialty care reported slight increases in compensation between 2009 and 2010, according to an MGMA survey.

Data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.