Value-based care has settled into the C-suites of the nation's hospitals and health systems.
And as executives' compensation continues to soar, more is coming from performance-based payment models that aren't just linked to individual efforts and outcomes, but also the efforts of their organizations.
Year-over-year increases in median total cash compensation for the top 10 C-suite positions ranged from a high of 15.3% for chief information officers at all hospitals to a low of 0.3% for chief medical officers at stand-alone hospitals, according to Modern Healthcare's 36th annual Executive Compensation Survey. Across all 17 of the hospital executive titles in the survey, C-suite and below, the median increase in 2016 was 4.6%. The survey covers 1,213 organizations, up 3% from 2015.
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