Weatherhead School’s J.B. Silvers discusses fair pay for hospital CEOs

Ohio hospital chief executive officers earning huge paychecks, bonuses
News Net 5: J.B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, explained why MetroHealth CEO Akram Boutros’ salary is fair compensation. “We’re going to look at peer groups of other hospitals of the same size, look at what their CEOs get paid and we want to be at the 40th percentile—in other words below average,” he said.