Compensation Issues

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 13 mass layoffs at hospitals in January, following five months where mass layoffs in the industry had decreased or remained flat, according to a report in American Medical News.

Jackson Health System's plans to shut down its Jackson South hospital seem to include scrapping a $102 million, state-of-the-art addition to the hospital, even though it is already 40 percent complete, according to a report by the Miami Herald.

Here is the median compensation of urologists for 2005-2008, according to the AMGA 2009 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.

Here is the median compensation of ophthalmologists for 2005-2008, according to the AMGA 2009 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.

Here are the average annual salaries for gastroenterologists by region, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2009 AMGA Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.

Jackson Health System, a public hospital system that primarily serves Miami's indigent population, could lay off 4,487 employees — more than a third of its workforce — and close two satellite hospitals, according to a story in The Miami Herald.

Here are 15 salary statistics about the compensation of anesthesiologists.

Here are 15 statistics about general surgeons' compensation.

Craig Kinyon, CEO of 228-bed Reid Hospital in Richmond, Ind., told a chamber of commerce meeting that businesses and other private payors are spending millions to subsidize Medicare and Medicaid shortfalls, according to a report by the Palladium-Item.

WellPoint explained why it wants to increase rates as much as 39 percent for individual insurance at its California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, in a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.