William Caron, Jr., CEO of Portland's MaineHealth, outranked his state peers in terms of salary, bringing in $1.2 million in total compensation, according to a Sun Journal report that examined 2008-09 tax filings by Maine hospitals.
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California state controller John Chiang has released more compensation data for public sector employees, including a Bay Area hospital executive who earned approximately $873,000 in 2009, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
Data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.
A female employee of CIGNA Health Care has filed a class action lawsuit against the health insurance company citing gender discrimination and seeking no less than $100 million in damages, according to a news release from Sanford Wittels & Heisler,…
Over half of respondents reported that their on-call pay expenditures increased over the last year, according to Sullivan, Cotter and Associates' 2010 Physician On-call Pay Survey Report.
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Approximately 1,000 nurses from Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center have staged a 24-hour walk-out, according to a Forbes news report.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants who work in the western United States reported the highest median salaries in 2010, according to a nation survey conducted by ADVANCE for NPs & PAs.
War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, W. Va., must pay 15 former hospital employees $500,000 after a circuit court judge ruled the hospital changed the employees’ retirement benefits to unduly use the $675,000 surplus toward a new hospital, according to…
Data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.
Data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' May 2009 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.