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Compensation Issues

Here are statistics on the 2008 cash compensation earned by oncologists, as compared by region, according to the Integrated Healthcare Strategies 2008 Healthcare Executive Compensation Survey and supplementary IHS statistics.

As hospitals, surgery centers and surgeons struggle with a Medicare payment system that reimburses at rates that are often barely high enough to break even on procedures, let alone make a profit, it is easy to overlook how reimbursement declines…

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A recent survey conducted by Integrated Healthcare Strategies, a leading healthcare compensation consulting firm, indicates that salary increases for healthcare executives will be lower in 2009 than in 2008. In this time of concern about declining rates of reimbursement, decreasing…

Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Ga., will cut $30 million in costs without laying off workers, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tenn., announced that it will be cutting 25 jobs and freezing salaries as a result of the current economic situation, according to a report in The Tennessean.

An obscure 1986 law continues to vex hospitals as they struggle to provide the on-call coverage for emergency rooms the law requires and elicit the support of physicians struggling with many of the same issues.

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