Leaders of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation were three of the highest-paid charity CEOs in the country, according to a Newsweek report.
Compensation Issues
The National Committee on Quality Assurance has released its annual State of Health Care Quality report, which found this year that spending more money on healthcare does not automatically lead to better health, according to an American Medical News report.
Physician compensation can vary widely by specialty, hospital ownership, geographic location and many other factors. Here are five factors currently affecting physician compensation, according to various reports.
Primary care physicians earn around half as much as specialist physicians, according to a study by researchers from the University of California Davis School of Medicine sent to Reuters Health.
Physician compensation and revenue differed based on whether physicians worked for hospital/integrated delivery system-owned practices or not-hospital-owned groups, according to a recent MGMA report.
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Following a report that claimed Salem Hospital president Norman Gruber received $1.2 million in annual compensation in 2008, the hospital explained that Mr. Gruber's unusually high compensation was due to a supplemental five-year retirement plan reported as earnings in 2008,…
Reimbursement in the future will rely more heavily on quality measures than it does now, which means hospital administrators will have to rethink efficiencies and methodology for improving patient outcomes. This requires a culture change within the hospital, often including…
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…
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.