Showing posts with label salary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salary. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

In JAMA Study, Not Factoring Speciality, Wage Gap Between Male And Female Physicians Stays The Same And Perhaps Growing

Female Physicians Earn $56k Less Per Year Than Males, Study Says by Alison Ritchie.  Medical Economics.  September 6, 2013.

(1)  The gap between pay for male and female physicians has essentially ________________ over the periods examined with an increase to a _______% gap between 2006-2010.

(2)  While the study adjusted for age, sex, race, state and hours worked it did not account for __________________.

(3)  The study raises the question whether the concentration of women and men is certain specialties it is a matter of ___________ or a matter of unequal _____________.

(4)  About ______% of U.S. medical school graduates are now women.


Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Model for the Future of Medicine

Kaiser Permanente CEO on Saving Lives, Money.  USA Today. October 24, 2012.

In this interview with George Halvorson, chief executive of Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care company and hospital in the nation, he offers his many interesting observations including:

*Because we are prepaid, we don't make our money by having care go wrong.

*Most of (our competitors)...don't get paid for prevention.

*We buy our surgeons by the month, not by the cut.  (Physicians at KP are on salary eliminating any possible incentive for unnecessary surgery).

*We need to stop rewarding the infrastructure of American health care for making mistakes.

Fascinating article about a firm that many view as a model for the future of U.S. medicine.