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Web Exclusive: Salary Hikes for Healthcare Workers Expected to Lag Other Industries
 Healthcare workers can expect an average base salary increase of 2.6% in 2011. That's slightly below increases of...
Web Exclusive: Hospital Compensation Growth Falls in Line with Larger Economy
The quarterly cost to hospitals for growth in wages, salaries, and total compensation has steadily declined over the...
Web Exclusive: Physician Payments for Journal Articles Scrutinized
Disclosures of physician payments for authorship have been inconsistent—even when the information could have...
Twin Cities’ Children’s Hospital plans up to 250 job cuts
Children's Hospital says it plans to eliminate 200 to 250 jobs by mid-November, citing a drop in patients, an increase...
Hospital monopolies ruin MRI bill as Sutter gets price it wants
After Mark Logsdon tore a ligament in his knee skiing at Lake Tahoe in March, he returned home to suburban Sacramento...
Hospitals say more insured patients can’t pay
It's no surprise that the struggling economy has made it harder for hospitals to collect money from patients who have...
Blue Cross of MA agrees to reduce rate increase
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the state’s largest health insurer, has agreed to reduce a dramatic rate...
AHA RAC Program Update Answers Provider Questions
Unless your hospital is so very unlucky to have been selected as one of the first for an audit, chances are you still...
Lessons Learned: How Scripps Health keeps making $100 million
For a third year in a row, San Diego-based Scripps Health has surpassed the $100 million marker in operating income...
Physician Advisors and RACs: Saving Grace, Defending Dollars
Effective physician advisors can be a "saving grace" when it comes to surviving Recovery Audit Contractors...

Webcast: Proven Compensation Strategies for Part-Time Physicians
Part-time employment options are essential for physician retention, recruitment, and alignment. Practice leaders must...
Webcast: More Patients, Less Money, Higher Quality
More patients are coming your way, courtesy of health reform, but reimbursement will still likely lag. Will you take...
Webcast: Incentivizing Physician Productivity with Benchmarks
What if the way you interpret survey benchmarks resulted in additional compensation of $500,000 for the same...
Webcast: Productivity Incentives for Direct Employment Compensation Models
Your direct compensation model is a key tool to help with physician productivity, but it’s not a static model--are you...
Audio Conference: Blueprint for an Integrated and Alignment-Driven Physician Compensation Plan
With the advent of the accountable care organization and reimbursement shifts from pay for performance to bundled...