Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care said it is offering a one-time success-sharing payment to eligible employees in appreciation for their participation in various cost-saving initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A healthcare staffing firm is accused of not paying its workers for one month of work at Moore County Hospital District, a rural hospital in Duma, Texas, MedPage Today reported July 26.

MaineHealth will spend $61 million a year to increase employee pay, the Portland-based health system said July 21.

Kansas City, Kan.-based University of Kansas Health System is giving employees bonuses of $1,250 for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

DCH Health System in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is offering new nurses $15,000 sign-on bonuses, the health system told Becker's.

Gender disparities in both representation and salary are greatest among cardiology and gastroenterology, according to research published July 12 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Some physicians who staffed the emergency department at two hospitals in the LRGHealthcare network went unpaid for hundreds of hours they worked in April, Concord Monitor reported July 1. 

No association is found between hospital CEO compensation and the value scores received by the hospitals they oversee, according to a July 6 blog post in Health Affairs. 

Health systems are vying for critical medical talent with eye-popping sign-on bonuses, with at least one system offering $30,000 to nurses. Here are six considerations for the extenders and receivers of this early incentive. 

Centura Health in Centennial, Colo., said June 30 that it will provide employees up to the director level, as well as employed providers, a $500 appreciation bonus if they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Aug. 13.

The following health systems revealed plans in June about offering sign-on bonuses or pandemic appreciation bonuses for workers:

Houston Methodist is offering $15,000 sign-on bonuses to nurses and $15,000 referral bonuses for employees.

Health systems in Georgia and Southwest Florida are offering nurses sign-on bonuses amounting to tens of thousands of dollars and/or relocation assistance amid efforts to address staffing needs. 

Trinity Health will provide $500 appreciation awards to its 123,000 employees in recognition of their contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a June 22 health system statement.

Cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery topped the list as the highest-paid physician assistant specialty in 2020, according to the American Academy of Physician Assistants Salary Report published June 16. 

The gender pay gap plagues women in the U.S., and the healthcare industry is no exception. Here are 10 numbers that illustrate the gender pay gap:

Women are just as likely as men to vote against a policy that shrinks the gender pay gap if the roles are reversed and men are the ones earning less, according to a study published in the journal of Applied Economics Letters.

Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital, part of Upper Allegheny Health System, said it is seeking nurses and offering incentives to help with those efforts.

The average primary care physician's salary amounts to $242,000, while specialty physicians make an average $102,000 more annually, according to a new report from Medscape.

A bill under consideration in California would require hospitals, clinics and skilled nursing facilities to invest in COVID-19 bonuses for healthcare workers, the Los Angeles Times reported June 2.