AGENCY TESTIMONY
Variations in compensation and benefits across H+H affiliate groups
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Dr. Katz outlines the significant differences in compensation, benefits, and work conditions across the various affiliate groups and academic affiliations within the H+H system.
- Different affiliates have varying salaries, work hours, pension plans, and other benefits
- These differences create challenges in achieving fair and equitable contracts across the system
- The variations lead to perceived inequities among physicians working in different parts of H+H
Mitch Katz
0:17:50
So those are the 4 different affiliations.
0:17:54
So now going beyond the differences within PAGNY, we all want again, I I feel both myself and the doctors who are going to speak for themselves, we all want to fair and equitable contracts.
0:18:06
That's that's all of our goals.
0:18:08
We all wanna be able to have salaries that enable us to recruit and retain.
0:18:14
All 4 of the affiliates have different arrangements, different salaries, different work hours, different pension plans, different numbers of days, different longevity bonuses.
0:18:26
And so it becomes extremely difficult to get to what we all agree is what we want, which is fair and equitable contracts, and very easy to feel, well, this is unfair because the doctor over there is earning $20,000 more than me.
0:18:44
And we don't want that, but it also isn't easy to then say, okay.
0:18:47
But we have to look at what is their pension plan versus what you have, what is their hours.
0:18:53
And so, again, I just say this to provide some color on understanding that part of why this has been so difficult, even though we all share the same goal, is that we're starting in a very complicated place, and that I'm hoping that where we're going to end is both with more common rules, more common practices, there's less sense of jealousy, but in a way that everybody feels good about, which we haven't which I acknowledge we haven't yet, received.