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Payday at UPMC: Top 27 earners at UPMC get $47.5 million, nearly half of UPMC charity care expenditures

2012 was a good year for UPMC’s top brass. UPMC CEO Jeffrey Romoff got a $90,000 raise, making Romoff one of the most highly compensated not-for-profit hospital CEOs in America. His total compensation at the health system tops $6 million, nearly two and a half times the CEO compensation of the Cleveland Clinic, next highest grossing nonprofit health [...]

NEWS

CBS News Investigates UPMC

CBS This Morning aired a segment—which puts Pittsburgh’s recent challenge to UPMC’s charitable status at the center of the growing movement to hold major nonprofits accountable. The piece points out that though UPMC, an international healthcare conglomerate with nearly $1 billion in profits, devotes only 2% of its budget to charity care, it receives millions [...]

Leaders Who Stand Up To UPMC Win On Election Day

The results in Pittsburgh’s Democratic primary election confirmed what we’ve been saying all along. We want elected officials who will stand up to our city’s biggest bully – UPMC. In the mayoral race and three competitive City Council races, candidates who were vocal supporters of the City’s challenge of UPMC’s charity status and the movement [...]

VOTERS SAY UPMC IS A BULLY AND WILL VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE PLEDGED TO HOLD UPMC ACCOUNTABLE

A new poll of likely Democratic primary voters commissioned by Make It Our UPMC reveals that concerns about the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) paying taxes are key issues in this year’s mayoral primary. Making UPMC pay its fair share of taxes was named as the top issue on the minds of 30% primary [...]

What Voters Care About: UPMC Tax Avoidance

Guest Blogger Michael Lamb City Controller and Community Coordinating Committee member for Make it Our UPMC With so many elections right around the corner, we’re hearing a lot about policy — and even more about politics! This spring, we learned that one smart policy also happens to be smart politics: taking a strong position on [...]