Lorri Sue Wildi, former vice president of operations for Alle-Kiski Medical Center in Natrona Heights, Penn., has claimed she was fired after complaining about gender discrimination concerning her pay, according to a Valley News Dispatch report.
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Medical interns have the fifth most stressful job in the country, behind air traffic controllers, inner city high school teachers, police officers and miners, based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Careercast.com, according to a Christian Science…
As the increasing focus on pay-for-performance threatens the traditional fee-for-service compensation model, hospitals and physicians wonder exactly how the compensation model will work. Ray Gyarmathy, MD, and Fred Jenkins, MD, from emergency medicine services provider Titan Emergency Group in Jacksonville,…
Internists received large pay increases in the past year while surgeon salaries continued to fall, according to the 2010 LocumTenens.com Physician's Salary Survey.
Nine top executives at Allegiance Health in Jackson, Mich., received pay increases that pushed their combined salaries to more than $2.5 million in the 2008-9 reporting year, according to a report by the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
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A recent study by the American Medical Association found that while only about 5 percent of physicians are sued each year, 42.2 percent of all physicians have had a medical malpractice claim made against them during their career.
Physicians in Alabama are beginning to charge patients for increased access, according to a Huntsville Times report.
El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., has decided to freeze its executive's salaries following $7.91 million in losses so far this year, according to Mercury News report.
The American Medical Group Association's 2010 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey reported most specialties saw a small increase in compensation in 2009, while many provider organizations experienced continued financial loss, according to a Newswise report.
A report by Payers & Providers, a California healthcare business publication, found the base salary for California hospital CEOs averaged $514,237 — or as much as $732,004 with bonuses, retirement money and expense accounts, according to a Ventura County Star…