More Fall-Out From Start of Congressional Hearings on Not-For-Profit Hospitals

The beginning congressional investigations of not-for-profit hospitals' tax exemptions are raising interest in the business practices of...

How Can a $124.8 Million a Year CEO Make Health Care More Affordable?

An op-ed piece in the Providence Journal about huge pay packages for corporate CEOs mentioned the breath-taking $124.8 million total compens...

Another Multi-Million Dollar Managed Care CEO to Retire

It seems that whenever the CEO of a large health care organization is about to step down, the news media opens a tiny, but revealing window ...

Thoughts on the Merck CEO Getting a "Performance" Bonus

Regarding the post below by Roy Poses: as former Director of Published Information Resources (running Merck Research Labs' science libr...

After Vioxx Withdrawal, How Did the Merck CEO Get a "Performance" Bonus?

USA Today has an article (with accompanying data table ) about the resurgence of stratospheric pay for corporate CEOs. For example, Ray Gilm...

Generous CEO Compensation and Corporate Governance

Re some previous posts in which we noted that managed care CEOs who publicly champion cutting health care costs often seem to command dispro...