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email article The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) spent more than a half a million dollars on its two board of directors meetings in fiscal year 2018-2019. For its winter meeting, the organization flew about 30 board members and ABEM staff -- some accompanied by family members -- to Maui and lodged them for about a week at the luxury Fairmont Kea Lani resort. The total cost was $317,419, according to ABEM budget documents provided to MedPage Today. The board has held its winter meeting in Hawaii every year since at least 2003. It also holds summer meetings, usually on t...

email article Top executives at medical boards frequently make more money than the average practicing physicians they regulate -- and sometimes it's a lot more. MedPage Today looked at tax documents for ABMS and its 24 member boards to find executive compensation and compared those figures with data from the American Medical Group Association's latest physician salary survey. The analysis found that for the 19 boards with complete data on both executive and physician pay, 12 of those executives made more than the median specialist salary. Some of the widest gaps in compensation were s...

email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Big Healthcare Companies Paid No Income Taxes Three healthcare entities -- Community Health Systems, Dexcom, and Hologic -- reported receiving federal rebates in 2020 rather than making a net payment of federal corporate income taxes, according to a report published by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). These companies were among at least 55 large American firms that did not report net tax payments last year, ITEP fou...