Compensation news and information

When voters OK'd a ballot measure intended to limit what El Camino Hospital could pay its executives and managers, the hospital's board worried about the implications for hiring.
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With not-for-profit healthcare systems facing growing scrutiny of their executive compensation, median total pay for the top 25 highest paid CEOs climbed 12% as base salaries grew 3% year over year.
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In the more than a dozen years that Clem Wilkes Jr. has served as a director of Mountain States Health Alliance, the compensation arrangement with the hospital system's chief executive has undergone plenty of changes.
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A Special Feature on the nation's compensation for healthcare executives, selected titles. Source: Sullivan, Cotter and Associates. Published August 12, 2013, p. 24.
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A list of the 25 highest paid executives at not-for-profit healthcare organizations, ranked by total compensation for 2011 and 2010 as reported in available IRS Form 990 filings. Source: Internal Revenue Service Form 990 filings from GuideStar USA. Published August 12, 2013, p. 34.
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A shortage of information technology workers is a big concern in the healthcare industry. So it's no surprise that the professionals trained and capable of providing security for that digital information are also in short supply.
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Doctors asked to assess options for reducing healthcare costs were not exactly enthusiastic about replacing the system that pays them based on the volume of tests, exams and procedures they perform.
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The American Medical Association has responded sharply to a July 20 Washington Post investigative article that found that the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee (RUC) has overvalued many procedures by overstating the amount of physicians' time required to perform them. Washington Monthly...
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El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., claimed a legal victory after a judge struck down a controversial voter-approved initiative that limited what the public hospital could pay administrators.
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Medicare is accelerating plans to initiate a controversial program that pegs a portion of doctors’ pay to the quality of their patient care.
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