In today’s complex benefits landscape, employers face mounting challenges in managing healthcare costs, designing effective plans, and engaging employees. With healthcare costs projected to rise 8% in 2025—the highest increase in over a decade—many organizations are turning to data analytics…
Compensation Issues
CEOs for Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems were paid between 79 and 161 times more than the median annual salary for an employee at the health system between 2020 and 2024, according to proxy statements filed with the Securities and…
CFOs at the country’s largest for-profit health systems and insurance giants are commanding multimillion-dollar pay packages — but a wide pay gap remains between the two sectors. In 2024, CFOs at big payers like UnitedHealth Group and Cigna earned nearly…
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare CEOs were paid between 189 and 406 times more than the health system’s median employee between 2020 and 2024, according to proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tenet identifies the median compensated employee using…
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare CEO Sam Hazen has been paid between 254 and 556 times more than the health system’s median employee since 2020, according to proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. To identify the median compensated…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services CEO and President Marc Miller was paid 281 times what the median employee earned in 2024, according to a proxy statement filed April 3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 2024 annual…
Wyoming has the highest hourly mean wage for physicians in the U.S., as well as the highest hourly mean wage for physicians after adjusted for cost of living, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…
Dallas-based Tenet CEO Saum Sutaria, MD, was paid 406 times more than the health system’s median employee in 2024, according to a proxy statement filed April 11 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 2024 annual total compensation of Tenet’s…
Executive compensation in healthcare continues to reflect a combination of performance-based incentives, stock awards and strategic benchmarks aligned with shareholder value. In 2024, leaders at four of the country’s largest for-profit health systems — HCA Healthcare, Tenet Healthcare, Universal Health…
California has the highest hourly mean wage for physician assistants in the U.S., and Indiana has the highest hourly mean wage for PAs after adjusted for cost of living, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor…