Compensation Issues

MaineHealth Portland will not give hazard pay to thousands of its workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Maine Beacon.

Houston Methodist is offering its employees a $500 "hope bonus" if they meet several eligibility criteria, including getting a COVID-19 vaccination, President and CEO Marc Boom, MD, said in a December email to employees, which was shared with Becker's Hospital…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente will provide 85,000 healthcare workers with a "hero bonus" to recognize their efforts caring for more than 400,000 COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, the union representing the workers said Dec. 21.

As an expression of gratitude for their COVID-19 work, nearly 200, 000 CVS Health workers are getting $250 bonuses, according to Business Insider.

Wayne Smith is stepping down as CEO of Community Health Systems Jan. 1, and Tim Hingtgen will become the Franklin, Tenn.-based company's new leader. 

Public employees are typically required to disclose their taxpayer-funded salaries, but executives of county hospitals in Indiana can keep their pay secret because of a rare exemption added to state law in 2016, according to the Indianapolis Star. 

Humana will offer its own version of CMS' Primary Care First model across 48 states and the District of Columbia, the insurer said Dec. 10.

UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa, will boost its minimum wage to $15 per hour, affecting about 33 percent of its workforce of 30,000.

The District of Columbia has some of the lowest annual health insurance costs for employees in the nation, according to a 2019 Commonwealth Fund report.

The Management and Board Evaluation Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority has approved a $50,000 performance bonus for Will Jackson, MD, CEO of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System, the health system confirmed Dec. 9.