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130 CMO / CARE DELIVERY 20 statistics: Department chair and physician cash compensation by specialty By Megan Knowles G eneral surgery department chairs saw the highest mean total cash compensation for physicians across 10 spe- cialties in 2017, according to a SullivanCotter report. SullivanCotter gathered data from nearly 135,000 individual physicians and advanced practice providers across approxi- mately 570 hospitals, health systems and medical groups. e report includes data for multiple position levels, from staff physicians to department chairs. Here are the mean total cash compensation rates for depart- ment chairs and staff physicians in 2017 across 10 specialties. 1. Internal medicine Department chair: $611,784 Staff physician: $262,917 2. General psychiatry Department chair: $483,815 Staff physician: $251,779 3. General surgery Department chair: $777,539 Staff physician: $413,741 4. Family medicine Department chair: $472,135 Staff physician: $255,647 5. General pediatrics Department chair: $437,690 Staff physician: $243,647 6. Anatomic and clinical pathology Department chair: $594,460 Staff physician: $343,145 7. Obstetrics and gynecology Department chair: $556,253 Staff physician: $351,119 8. Anesthesiology Department chair: $618,237 Staff physician: $394,259 9. Diagnostic radiology Department chair: $726,935 Staff physician: $479,609 10. Emergency medicine Department chair: $499,540 Staff physician: $338,329 n 20 health organizations that received the most NIH funding in 2017 By Alia Paavola B altimore-based Johns Hopkins University, University of California San Francisco and Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan all received more than $500 million in Nation- al Institutes of Health funding in fiscal year 2017, according to the NIH web-based tool. The NIH tracks the funding of critical medical research and other support at universities, hospitals, small businesses and other or- ganizations. It maintains this information in an online database. Here are 20 health organizations that received the most NIH funding in fiscal year 2017 along with the amount they received, according to the online tool. 1. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore): $651.8 million 2. University of California San Francisco: $593.9 million 3. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor): $521.8 million 4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): $493.9 million 5. University of Pittsburgh: $485.3 million 6. Stanford (Calif.) University: $465.9 million 7. University of Washington (Seattle): $443.4 million 8. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): $440.3 million 9. Washington University (St. Louis): $435.6 million 10. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): $425.2 million 11. University of California San Diego (La Jolla): $424.4 million 12. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: $420 million 13. Columbia University Health Sciences (New York City): $402.7 million 14. University of California Los Angeles: $401.2 million 15. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston): $394.5 million 16. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston): $390.5 million 17. Emory University (Atlanta): $325 million 18. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York City): $317.8 million 19. University of Wisconsin-Madison: $298.1 million 20. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle): $284.7 million Note: This is not a ranking by the NIH. This particular list includes awards in the U.S. during fiscal year 2017. The database uses frozen information for past fiscal years, so it may differ from information displayed on RePORTER, a different NIH reporting tool. n