By Andis Robeznieks September 28, 2009 For hospital chief medical officers, 2008 was a good year as they saw their compensation increase 12.5%, up to $315,991 from $280,851, compared with the 4% pay increase received by group practice CMOs who were paid $304,822, up from $293,027, according to the 2008-09 Survey of Chief Medical... ... FULL STORY
By Gregg Blesch September 14, 2009 How much is it appropriate for a hospital to pay a physician? Without explaining how the line was drawn, the Justice Department says it was crossed in Waterloo, Iowa, when Covenant Medical Center paid a handful of employed specialists sums as high as $1.8 million apiece. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 27, 2009 Intense competition for physician services, failing economic conditions, crushing medical school debt, and myriad other positive and negative forces are having a curious side effect: More young doctors are considering rural areas for their first place to practice. ... FULL STORY
February 09, 2009 If lawmakers have their way, group purchasing organizations will be among the companies required to report any ownership interest or payments that they provide to doctors, according to new draft legislation for the long-anticipated Physician Payments Sunshine Act. ... FULL STORY
January 12, 2009 Part-time doc employees have the same status as full-time doc employees, according to an OIG advisory opinion. As a result, paying those docs' wages for services performed on publicly insured patients would not violate federal anti-kickback laws, the OIG says. ... FULL STORY
September 08, 2008 The CMS has soothed the nerves of providers with its latest round of revisions to the Stark restrictions on physician self-referral. ... FULL STORY
August 11, 2008 CoxHealth President and CEO Robert Bezanson made the most of his first chance to speak publicly about a three-year federal investigation into the two-hospital system’s financial arrangements with physicians. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 21, 2008 According to at least one healthcare compensation expert, because of a shrinking supply of doctors and increasing demand, some physicians may soon see their services “turn into a barrel of oil,” meaning they could become a commodity being priced so high that healthcare organizations have to get... ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene January 21, 2008 Total compensation for chief medical officers rose significantly for managed-care organizations in 2006, but CMOs at medical groups, hospitals and integrated health systems achieved only modest salary gains, according to a new compensation survey. The largest annual pay raise went to CMOs at... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks August 06, 2007 Supply and demand mixing with quality-of-life issues drove the results of Modern Physician’s annual physician compensation survey, which shows oncologists, pathologists and psychiatrists receiving on average double-digit pay increases in 2007, and the average compensation for orthopedic... ... FULL STORY
March 19, 2007 After a six-year legal battle with Los Angeles County, a group of about 670 county-employed physicians will share a $10.1 million settlement stemming from claims they were denied back pay and benefits when they joined a union in 1999. ... FULL STORY
By Jennifer Lubell March 01, 2007 The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission issued two reports to Congress today. The commission offered two alternatives for controlling physician expenditures under Medicare: ... FULL STORY
By Michael Romano February 20, 2007 The Integrated Healthcare Association, the nation’s largest pay-for-performance program, will take a big step forward in the burgeoning pay-for performance movement when it adds efficiency measures to its formula for providing incentives to more than... ... FULL STORY
By Matthew DoBias February 05, 2007 Hospitals and other healthcare providers would see an across-the-board 0.65% cut in annual Medicare inflation updates under the proposed fiscal 2008 budget unveiled today, a move the CMS said would slow the growth of its Medicare program by almost $40 billion over five years. ... FULL STORY
By Matthew DoBias December 30, 2006 For physicians and their lobbyists, congressional lawmakers made sure that 2007 would be anything but a happy new year. ... FULL STORY
By Cinda Becker May 11, 2006 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts said it will double from $94 million to $189 million the amount of money it pays providers in three separate pay-for-performance programs ... FULL STORY
By Michael Romano January 02, 2006 "There's clearly been a growing importance on the position of vice president for quality," says Carol Westfall of recruiting firm Cejka. ... FULL STORY
December 12, 2005 The effectiveness of the National Disaster Medical System has been hamstrung by "mismanagement, bureaucratic reshuffling and inadequate funding" ... FULL STORY
By Other News Source November 15, 2005 Lawmakers are again accusing the FDA of putting politics over science in the long-running saga over whether the morning-after pill should be sold without a prescription.. ... FULL STORY
September 30, 2005 Richard Rodriguez, M.D., is the chief medical officer for 457-bed Tucson (Ariz.) Medical Center, though a casual observer might not immediately connect his title with his job description. ... FULL STORY
By Cinda Becker September 13, 2005 Forty-five bodies were found at Memorial Medical Center, a New Orleans hospital owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Associated Press reported. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks August 30, 2005 In a crowded field competing for Wisconsin's open 8th Congressional District seat, one candidate is hoping that his healthcare platform will set him apart from the rest. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn August 23, 2005 HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology reorganized into five divisions: the Immediate Office of the National Coordinator and four other offices for IT adoption, interoperability and standards, programs and coordination, and policy and research. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks August 19, 2005 The primary election is more than a year away, but two Democrats with medical backgrounds have already started running for Maryland's 3rd Congressional District seat and they promise to keep healthcare issues front and center in their campaigns. ... FULL STORY
By Tony Fong July 29, 2005 President Bush today signed into law the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, creating a national database for patient-safety data. ... FULL STORY
By Other News Source July 29, 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., today threw his support behind legislation passed by the House to expand federal financing for human embryonic stem cell research. ... FULL STORY
By Tony Fong July 28, 2005 Pressure increased on the Bush administration to alter the Medicare payment formula for physicians, as 89 senators signed a letter asking that Part B drugs be removed from the formula. ... FULL STORY
By Tony Fong July 13, 2005 The White House will be asking for an additional $300 million in funding for veterans' healthcare today, according to a spokesman for Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho). ... FULL STORY
By Other News Source July 12, 2005 Sen. Arlen Specter, suffering from cancer, said Monday he plans to take public his anger over the government's restrictions on funding for studies on human embryonic stem cells. ... FULL STORY
By Tony Fong July 11, 2005 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt named 13 voting members and 15 nonvoting members to a Medicaid review panel that must recommend $10 billion in federal Medicaid cuts by Sept. 1. ... FULL STORY
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