UPMC says it does not have employees
October 22, 2013 11:52 AM By Moriah Balingit / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Depending on whom you ask, medical giant UPMC either employs more than 50,000 people — or no one at all. On Monday, in one of the first hearings of the city of Pittsburgh’s lawsuit to strip UPMC of its tax-exempt charity status, Common Pleas Read More
Why Are Hospital CEOs Paid So Well?
By Richard Gunderman, 10/16/2013 Can you tell how good a job hospital CEOs are doing by the amount they are paid? A study by investigators at the Harvard School of Public Health this week suggests that the answer is no. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine, the study found no link between Read More
NLRB charges UPMC with more than a dozen violations against union-organizing workers
October 2, 2013 1:04 pm By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The National Labor Relations Board has charged UPMC with 19 violations against workers involved in a union-organizing campaign. The charges include unlawfully “threatening, interrogating, and intimidating employees” for union activities, calling police on union representatives who were lawfully on UPMC premises, implying the workers would receive Read More
UPMC execs spin the facts to obscure low wages
September 11, 2013 12:09 am UPMC executives’ efforts to spin the facts can’t mask the reality of the health care giant’s low wages and meager benefits for service workers (“UPMC Provides Superior Benefits to Employees,”Sept. 4 letters). UPMC senior vice president Greg Peaslee’s attempt to obscure service workers’ low wages by lumping their wage rates Read More
UPMC CEO paid $6 million in fiscal year
May 16, 2013, 7:43pm EDT Kris B. Mamula Of the 26 UPMC employees who received more than $1 million, 13 were doctors. UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff was paid $6.06 million for the year ending June 30, 2012, reflecting a $90,000 raise from the previous fiscal year and leading 26 health system executives in earning more than Read More
Hospitals’ charges can vary greatly for similar services
May 9, 2013 12:10 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Even a quick glance of the data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows stark differences in what hospitals charge for essentially the same service. If a patient had a pacemaker implanted at Allegheny General Hospital in 2011, the hospital on Read More
UPMC vs. Highmark: Policy experts say now’s the time to end the warfare
March 31, 2013 12:20 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Twenty-one months from now, barring an unexpected thawing of the relationship, UPMC and Highmark will go their separate ways with ripple effects that will be felt throughout the region. Local health policy experts say that should not be allowed to happen and suggest now may be Read More
Passavant Hospital Foundation Denounces UPMC Closing of UPMC Beaver Valley: Passavant Cites Closure Actions as Another Example of How UPMC Fails to Keep Its Promises
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ — A spokesperson for the Passavant Hospital Foundation today said that the imminent closure of UPMC Beaver Valley and the layoff of 175 of its employees was an example of how UPMC Health System does not keep its commitments. “When UPMC took over the former Aliquippa Hospital, it made a pledge Read More
22 UPMC employees top $1 million
Kris B. MamulaReporter- Pittsburgh Business Times University of Pittsburgh Medical Center President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff is the highest-paid among 22 employees at the hospital giant who make more than $1 million in total compensation, according to tax reports released May 11. Romoff received $5.97 million in 2010, up from $3.56 million in 2009 when Romoff and other senior Read More
