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
Group says UPMC wage scale is harmful
August 22, 2013 12:14 am By Steve Twedt / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette UPMC may be the state’s largest employer with more than 50,000 people on staff locally, but the low wages that many of its service workers earn are eroding Pittsburgh’s middle class, according to a white paper scheduled for release today by Pittsburgh United, a long-standing critic Read More
UPMC, healthcare union take center stage at Labor Day parade
By Mike Wereschagin Published: Monday, September 2, 2013 4:06 p.m. Elected officials join laborers as they make their way down the Boulevard of the Allies for the annual Labor Day Parade in Downtown Monday, September 2, 2013. More than 70,000 participants took part in the padade which is billed as the second largest in the country, behind 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
UPMC CEO paid $6 million in fiscal year
Kris B. Mamula. May 16,2013. UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoffwas 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 $1 million, according to newInternal Revenue Service filings. Of the 26 employees who received more than $1 million, 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
Voters support challenge of UPMC
Published: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 12:01 a.m. Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013 Pittsburgh’s challenge of UPMC’s nonprofit status has the support of an overwhelming majority of likely voters, a Tribune-Review poll of registered Democrats in the city shows. The poll conducted by Susquehanna Polling & Research of Harrisburg found that 76 percent of those voters support Read More
Highmark’s ‘Community Blue’ patients rejected by UPMC
March 5, 2013 12:18 am By Bill Toland / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When Marie Acquafondata retired after 40 years at what is now UPMC Shadyside, she and her husband, John, had to switch health insurance plans. They left her UPMC Health Plan and signed up with Highmark’s new Community Blue plan, offered by his employer. Community Blue is Read More
