Compensation Issues

Here are six statistics on CRNAs and nurse anesthetists, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists' Fiscal Year 2009 AANA Practice Profile and Demographic Surveys & Database.

Boston Medical Center had a $24.5 million loss from operations and an overall loss of $10.3 million for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has raised rates for medical services at its hospitals and outpatient clinics by 5 percent, according to a report by the Contra Costa Times.

Heritage Community Initiatives, successor of the Heritage Health Foundation, could receive $3 million from its 1996 sale of Braddock (Pa.) Hospital to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center if a U.S. District Court rules that the hospital was sold for…

Baylor Health Care System is defending its decision to contract with a single anesthesia group to provide services at Dallas's Baylor University Medical Center, despite protests from a local legislator, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News.

Cheboygan (Mich.) Memorial Hospital is cutting $4 million a year in services, according to a report by 9&10 News.

Here are statistics on the earnings of registered nurses from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2010-2011 Edition.

Amidst the legislative chaos created by the implosion of health reform following this week's Massachusetts election, physician groups are getting anxious that Congress won't perform its usual eleventh-hour fix of the automatic Medicare physician fee cut.

Here are 10 facts and statistics about certified registered nurse anesthetists. 

University of California's Board of Regents is expected for formally approve $3.1 million in incentive pay to 38 senior healthcare leaders in the UC system, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle.