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
Ravenstahl pledges challenge to UPMC’s tax-exempt status
March 20, 2013 4:00 pm By Moriah Balingit / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl announced today that the city would challenge the tax exempt status of regional medical giant UPMC, a court battle that he likened to “the David versus the Goliath.” “They’re not a charity,” the mayor said at a press conference today. “They haven’t Read More
Ravenstahl wants UPMC to pay tax on all 150 properties in Pittsburgh
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is going after UPMC’s tax-exempt properties in the city. All 150 of them. Ravenstahl said the city is challenging the tax-exempt status of the $10 billion hospital system’s properties in the city with a lawsuit it filed Wednesday with the Allegheny County Court of Common Read More
