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,…
Compensation Issues
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.
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…
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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.
Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent, Maine, has cut four administrators from its payroll and will impose a 2 percent pay cut on remaining administrators in order to remain financially viable, according to a Bangor Daily News report.
As hospitals bring in medical practices, compensation is a key source of physician satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The main reason physicians leave groups is compensation.
Albany Medical Center (N.Y.) has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit alleging Albany administrators conspired with other local hospital leaders to limit the pay of around 4,000 registered nurses, according to a Wall Street Journal…