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Will too many future docs forgo primary care for specialties?
The nation's medical schools are gearing up to graduate nearly a third more doctors than in the past, but concerns are rising that too many will be trained for specialties rather than primary care,
Vanguard CEO compensation jumps 54%
Despite public scrutiny of executive pay amid rising healthcare costs, the CEO and board chairman of Vanguard Health Systems saw his total compensation rise by 54 percent to $3.7 million for the
CEOs begin to push back on hefty pay packages
Hospital chief executive officers are beginning to speak out regarding their increasingly commonplace seven-figure pay packages, reports FierceHealthcare. Javon Bea, CEO of Wisconsin's Mercy Health
The problem of 8-figure hospital paychecks and near-poor patients
The biggest problem besetting the healthcare industry is money. The United States spends twice as much per capita as any other industrialized nation on healthcare, with middling results and huge
AMGA: Most medical groups operating at a loss
With very slight increases in compensation across specialties, most medical groups operated at a significant financial loss in 2010, reveals the American Medical Group Association's (AMGA) "2011
Albany Med to pay $4.5M to settle nurse pay lawsuit
Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital will pay more than $4.5 million to settle its part in a lawsuit alleging hospitals in the greater Albany area conspired to keep pay unusually low for thousands
Salary apparently not the secret to low-cost care
To test a hypothesis that large group medical practices provide lower-cost care by placing physicians on salary--rather than based on how much revenue they generate--Health Affairs contributors John
Hospital CEO pay: High or justified?
A California-wide survey of 118 nonprofit hospitals showed that base salary for CEOs averaged $514,000, according to Payers & Providers, a healthcare business publication. Add bonuses, retirement
Hospital-based physician pay formulas factor in more variables
As hospitals move away from contracting with independent groups for hospital-based services and toward physician employment, payment formulas are becoming ever more complex, according to Hospital
First national medical home pilot yields lessons for the future
The first national medical home demonstration has come to a close, and the 36 practices who put two years into transforming toward the model deliver somewhat discouraging news. Despite their intense
