Once again, for-profit hospital executive compensation numbers are out, and once again, people are outraged.
Even Congress is getting frustrated, as the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing in April questioning hospital CEOs on their spending and growing healthcare costs. People in the US owe a collective $220 billion in medical debt, according to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, and healthcare costs are expected to rise 9% this year, according to a Business Group on Health survey.
While executives during the hearing blamed rising premiums and said consolidation could help, nurses on the ground pushed back.
“It is simply outrageous and immoral that healthcare CEOs take home multimillion-dollar compensation packages as we workers and patients witness skyrocketing healthcare costs and face chronic short-staffing that undermines patient care in our hospitals,” Karena Jimenez Pulido, chief nurse representative with National Nurses United at HCA Florida Largo Hospital, told us via email.
Salary breakdown. When it comes to providers, it’s not surprising that for-profit CEOs are paid the most.
