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The Long Con - "Charitable" Hospitals Make Multimillionaires out of Their CEOs
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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...
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deception
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executive compensation
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hospital systems
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Hospitals
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mission-hostile management
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non-profit organizations
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perverse incentives
Should We Cry for Non-Profit Hospital System CEOs Paid Less than For-Profit CEOs?
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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...
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executive compensation
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hospital systems
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Hospitals
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Kaiser Permanente
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Novant Health
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peer benchmarking
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perverse incentives
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Sentara
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Sutter Health
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UPMC
Another Attempt to Show the RUC Behind the Curtain
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1:17 PM
In 2007, readers of the Annals of Internal Medicine could read part of the solution to a great medical mystery.(1) For years, health care c...
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anechoic effect
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Medicare
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perverse incentives
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regulatory capture
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reimbursement
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RUC
Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - and the Continuing Example of the Troubles of Wake Forest Baptist
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9:25 AM
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing , of all places, in the Wall Street ...
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accountability
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executive compensation
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perverse incentives
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Reason for Hope? - Novartis Rescinds Vasella's Golden Parachute
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11:48 AM
Enormous compensation of hired health care executives, out of all proportion, if related at all to whether their work had any positive effec...
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executive compensation
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golden parachutes
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Novartis
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perverse incentives
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Switzerland
It is Harder to Run a Small Public Hospital System than California? - Deep Seated Myths and Logical Fallacies Underpinning Health Care Executive Compensation
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5:37 PM
Hospital executive compensation, the gift that keeps on giving... A Public Hospital CEO's Current Compensation A recent, somewhat obscu...
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accountability
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executive compensation
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hospital systems
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imperial CEO
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public hospitals
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