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"Engaging Excellence" while Engaging Secret Paychecks - The Rise and Fall of the Upstate Medical University President

Posted by | 11:54 AM
Yet another leader of a big health care organization seems to have acquired the excessively entitled CEO syndrome. Another Brilliant, Fearle...

UnitedHealth's Latest Blunders Include Lax Fraud Detection, Recalled EHRs - So Why is its CEO Worth $13.9 Million, or is it $34.7 Million?

Posted by | 12:38 PM
We managed to go four months since our last post about UnitedHealth, but sure enough, the company that keeps on giving... examples of poor m...

What Sorts of People are "Most Influential in Healthcare?"

Posted by | 9:07 AM
Modern Healthcare just put out their list of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" for 2013.  A look at what sorts of p...

The Long Con - "Charitable" Hospitals Make Multimillionaires out of Their CEOs

Posted by | 10:53 AM
The CEOs of ostensibly charitable hospitals founded to serve the poor continue to become rich.   The latest reminders are in two articles fr...

Should We Cry for Non-Profit Hospital System CEOs Paid Less than For-Profit CEOs?

Posted by | 11:34 AM
Two recent articles ( here and here ) in Modern Healthcare providing an update on the compensation of CEOs of non-profit hospital systems r...

Johnson and Johnson Settles Suit Alleging Management Incompetence and Deception, Managers Continue to Prosper

Posted by | 10:38 AM
Very quietly, pharmaceutical/ biotechnology/ medical device corporate giant Johnson & Johnson just settled another lawsuit. The most pi...

A "Simply Outstanding," "Superb" Hospital CEO Cops a Plea to Two Felonies

Posted by | 10:59 AM
In all the discussions of what is wrong with US health care, very rarely is the quality of the leadership of health care organizations quest...

No Blues, but Lots of Green for St Louis Hospital System CEOs

Posted by | 10:14 AM
A recent article in the St Louis Post Dispatch provided the latest examples of how hospital executive compensation continues to defy grav...