Directorship compensation, hours, and the compliance framework around them, benchmarked from 15,619 Medicare cost-report filings across 2,614 hospitals and 62 service lines.
Six posts on what hospitals pay directors, how many hours the roles run, and how to benchmark one defensibly.
A national benchmark of implied hourly rates, annual stipends, and reported hours, built from Medicare hospital cost reports rather than survey panels.
Everyone sizes a directorship's time commitment off the hospital. In the cost-report filings, bed count explains about 3% of the variation in director hours.
The same $40,000 stipend can sit above the market's 90th percentile or below its 10th, depending on hours. The defensible method benchmarks the rate, not the dollars.
"The rate is market" answers only one of the two questions a directorship has to survive. How appraisers and compliance teams generally separate the pricing test from the purpose test.
Anesthesiology directorships post a $200/hr median and the operating room $217/hr, both well above the $175 national median. What the cost-report data shows, and how to use it.
The same $30,000 stipend is $250 an hour at 120 hours and $75 at 400. Three steps to find your implied rate and compare it to your specialty's median.
An annual data report carrying these national findings forward, updated as each cost-report vintage lands.