Compensation Issues

West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur, La., is the first in the Lake Charles area to have anesthesia services covered in-network by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana after nearly six months of being out of network, according to a…

In April 2009, Sullivan, Cotter and Associates surveyed 142 organizations across the country for its fifth annual survey of physician on-call pay rates and practices. Here are some of the survey's key findings. Editor's note: Percentages offered throughout may total…

A study presented at the American Academy of Pain Medicine's 26th annual meeting investigated methods for reducing the estimated $1 billion spent annually on pain care treatment in the United States and found that intrathecal drug delivery systems could save…

Karen Rewerts has been named vice president of finance and CFO of SSM Health Care – St. Louis, according to an SSM news release.

Here are the median daily on-call compensation rates for independent and hospital-employed physicians by specialty, according to the MGMA's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey 2010 Report, Based on 2009 Data.

About 100 to 200 Texas physicians each year are ending all involvement with Medicare, up from "less than a handful" per year in 2007, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.

Here are the average daily on-call compensation rates for physicians by medical specialty, according to MGMA's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey 2010 Report, Based on 2009 Data.

Compensation for medical directors varies widely by practice ownership, specialty and responsibility level, according to a news release on a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association.

New York City's public Health & Hospitals Corp. announced it will cut 500 additional jobs and end contracts with a "significant" number of physicians, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

A post-hoc analysis of a Phase 3 safety study demonstrated that tapentadol tablets were associated with a lower incidence of nausea, vomiting and constipation when compared to oxycodone immediate release tablets in elderly patients with moderate to severe low-back or…