Still No Questions Asked - Journalists Fail to Challenge Talking Points Used to Justify Million Dollar Plus Executive Compensation at New York Non-Profit Hospitals

It's deja vu all over again. I even get to reuse the introduction of a post from one month ago.  As I wrote in May, 2016 ,...  The probl...

No Questions Asked - Journalist Parrots the Talking Points in Support of Hospital Executive Compensation

The problem of ever rising, amazingly generous pay for top health care managers is a frequent topic for Health Care Renewal .  We have sugg...

Who Benefits? - Hospital Profits and Quality May Fall, But Hospital Executives' Compensation Keeps Rising

Despite recent attempts at health care reform, US health care dysfunction seems to proceed inexorably with ever rising costs, and continuing...

Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

Umpteenth verse, same as the first... As just reported by Bloomberg , Novartis AG said it agreed to pay $25 million to settle a U.S. Securi...

The Rich (Hospital Managers) Get Richer - Carolinas Healthcare Raises Executive Compensation Once Again

It's that time of year again.  Carolinas Healthcare has made public its executive compensation, and once again, its CEO got a big raise,...

Health Care Managers as Ever More Effective Value Extractors - Following Up on Novant Health and Cape Cod Healthcare

The ever increasing compensation of top managers of health care organizations provides incentives to continue business as usual.  We have f...