By Rob Wolff A recent opinion from a federal court in Michigan, Cason-Merenda v. Detroit Medical Center, dramatically underscores the risk of excessive sharing of compensation information between hospitals in the same geographic market, particularly through use of third-party wage surveys that do not satisfy the requirements of the policy statement issued by the Department of… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Compensation RSS FeedNew York – Spotlight on Healthcare Executive Compensation
By Barbara Hoey With so much emphasis on budget-cutting, facility closures, and the trimming of Medicare and Medicaid spending, executive compensation in the health care industry has been coming under ever-increasing scrutiny. Early this month, Governor Cuomo announced the formation of a task force to examine executive compensation within non-profit health care institutions in New York. This… Continue Reading
Supreme Court: Hospitals Must Pay FICA for Medical Residents
On January 11, 2011, in Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court held that medical residents are not students under federal tax law, and thus are subject to federal taxes to cover Social Security and Medicare (so-called FICA taxes). In a unanimous opinion, the Court upheld the validity… Continue Reading