The "process measures" used on Hospital Compare, a compendium of Medicare data on hospital quality intended to help patients choose the best hospitals, may not correlate with mortality rates or surgical site infections at hospitals, according to a study published…
Compensation Issues
Trinity Regional Health System in Rock Island, Ill., has named Mykl Garrett as the system's new executive vice president and COO, according to a Trinity news release.
In one of payors new attempts to slow ballooning costs for cancer treatment, a new pilot program from UnitedHealth Group will offer oncologists bonuses for committing to standard treatment protocols, according to a report by the New York Times.
Here are 10 statistics about how non-profit hospitals determine compensation for officers, directors, trustees and other key employees, according to the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Hospital Compliance Project Final Report.
Physicians who received a fixed salary used e-mail to communicate with patients more frequently than physicians who were compensated by other means, according to a study from the Center for Studying Health System Change.
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Medicare will soon begin reimbursing hospitals based, at least somewhat, on their performance. As such, hospitals will be compensated based on certain measures such as quality outcomes and readmission rates. Making the transition to pay-for-performance necessitates an entire culture change…
A pilot project designed to explore new ways to pay physicians may soon be funded by a $10 billion government program designed to cut $2.5 trillion in annual healthcare costs, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Employment of pharmacists is expected to grow by 17 percent from 2008-2010, meaning the creation of around 46,000 new jobs, according to a Delmarva Now report.
Lois Dister, executive vice president and managing principal of Cejka Executive Search, answers a series of questions on trends affecting executive compensation.
Nine of the top 10 highest paid Los Angeles County employees in 2009 were hospital workers, according to an L.A. Times report.