AHRP has;
California Bidding War: Psychiatrist Paid $822,000
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Bloomberg News conducted a data
review of payroll records for 1.4 million public employees of the 12 largest
states. The findings show that public employees in California earn far higher
salaries than in other states, from prison operations to health care, base
salary to overtime.
The first, of a six-part series, America's
Great Payroll Giveaway, focuses on “a bidding war” that has catapulted
prison psychiatrists to astronomical wage earners!
The Bloomberg review shows that psychiatrists
are among the highest paid employees in California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan,
New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Bloomberg reports that according to
the data,
“Psychiatric compensation stands out:
last year, 16 California psychiatrists made more than $400,000, while only one
did in the other 11 most- populous states. Last year, 93 California
psychiatrists made more than $300,000, a level matched by only 12 in the other
states, according to the data.”
A 2006 lawsuit about abominable
prison conditions resulted in court-ordered salary increases for prison
psychiatrists, which, due to mismanagement, resulted in many psychiatrists
leaving their positions at state hospitals for higher paying prison jobs.
Example: “Mohammad Safi, a
graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, began working as a psychiatrist at
a California mental hospital in 2006, making $90,682 in his first six months.
Last year, he took home $822,302, all of it paid by taxpayers.”
Example: Husband-and-wife
psychiatrists Joginder Singh and Mohinder Kaur earned a total of $4.7 million
from 2005 through 2011, according to California payroll data. In an interview
outside his Coalinga home, Singh said he retired from a mental hospital in Napa
in 2006, and returned the next year to Coalinga State Hospital, where he was
appointed medical director, for the higher pay after the court intervened.
“When the pay scales went up, that’s
when I joined as medical director,” Singh said. “If you join the job again, and
work for at least three years, then you are entitled to an enhanced pension.”
In 2006, Singh earned a base salary
of $145,965. In 2008, his first full year back, his base was $270,258, an 85
percent jump. Kaur, who also retired in 2006 and then went to work at Coalinga in
2007, saw her base pay almost double, to $252,796 from 2006 to 2008, state
records show.
Jeffrey
Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at the Yale University School
of Management and founder of a training institute for chief executive officers,
said:
“The jockeying between agencies for
the same doctors demonstrates a payroll system run amok and chronic
mismanagement. Even though this all took place in California, such apparent
recklessness is almost too over the top for Hollywood,” Sonnenfeld said. “These
irresponsible public officials have artificially constrained the market with an
unnaturally limited supply pool, either due to laziness, incompetence,
corruption or all of the above.”
Another data review
should focus on what percentage of these states' healthcare expenditure is
spent on psychotropic drugs? The clinical value of most psychotropic drugs is
questionable, whereas their adverse side effects continue to cause serious
medical diseases whose treatment to counteract the ill effects of psychotropic
drugs most often results in very costly combined drug cocktails, significantly
inflating state expenditures.
Vera Sharav
Thank You AHRP and Mrs Sharav
2 comments:
I just answer you at my blog.
I'm watching all the work you do here and...
I'm too emotional now.
I have to sleep. I'm recovering from the last greedy action my father tried to do with me.
I did twenty years of therapy because of this family.
My mother died last year and it meant nothing because I left her house when I was twenty one.
I know my father only think about himself blah blah blah but we always have the hope that things change.
Fortunately I know that people don't change, I'm the example for that. lol
It is good to have someone we can tell our problems.
I don't do it in my blogs.
I'll be back when I'm fine.
Tomorrow I'll be fine. I'm sure of that.
You always move me D Bunker.
:)
Merry Christmas!
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