According to Medscape's 2020 compensation study, there is a 25% wage differential between male and female primary care physicians and a 31% gap among specialists. And according to a new study out of Harvard Medical School, there’s a factor that is exacerbating the existing gaps: medical practices with more than 50% male physicians on staff.
The real estate occupied by the shuttered Hahnemann University Hospital campus has come up for sale. The properties provide for a rare opportunity to make a dramatic real estate play in Center City.
The West Park Hospital Board voted last Wednesday to approve back pay for Cody Regional Health providers and senior staff who had taken pay cuts at the height of the shutdown due to COVID-19. The move was included in the new budget for the year. CEO Doug McMillan said he declined the back pay.
Sequoia Hospital announced on Tuesday it has received a $10 million donation from an anonymous private foundation in the Bay Area, the Dignity Health system said. The donation is the largest single gift that the hospital has ever received and will be applied to substantial renovations within the hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute, a press release said.
Health insurer Humana said it is investing $100 million in the in-home primary care company, Heal, to bring in-person physician “house calls and one-touch medicine” to seniors in its Medicare Advantage plans.
Executives at pharmaceutical firms tasked with developing lifesaving drugs for the coronavirus — and receiving billions of dollars in federal funding — are taking home multimillion-dollar compensation packages even before their companies produce a working treatment.