David Grogan, chair of the board of directors at Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville, N.C., said the board supports the compensation package of hospital CEO Ed Rush, following a letter from Statesville law clerk Brian Chapman that called the compensation…
Compensation Issues
In the wake of healthcare reform, one thing is certain — by 2014, 32 million additional Americans are going to have health insurance, and someone will need to take care of them.
A gender discrimination suit filed by Lorri Sue Wildi, former vice president of operations of Alle-Kiski Medical Center in Natrona Heights, Pa., has been settled out of court, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
Here are eight statistics about compensation of anesthesiologists from 2006-2010, based on 2010 data, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2010 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.
Here are the five medical specialties with the highest average gains in income offers between 2008/9 and 2009/10, based on data from Merritt Hawkins' 2010 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.
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Part B of the 2010 Medicare trustees report has projected an annual spending growth of only 5.3 percent over the next five years, assuming scheduled physician pay cuts occur starting on Dec. 1, according to an American Medical News report.
According to 2009 data from the MGMA Physician and Compensation Production Survey: 2010 Report, orthopedic surgeons specializing in sports medicine make an average annual salary of $599,759, over $100,000 more a year than orthopedic surgeons who specialize in foot and…
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.
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,…