With such competition for doctors, CHWC sometimes had no choice but to offer top salaries. Chad Tinkel’s wife, Jodi Tinkel, the hospital’s medical cardiologist, made $616,489 for the fiscal year ending in September 2018—higher than the 75th percentile for nonsurgical cardiologists ($563,130) in the United States. Michael Nosanov, who ran CHWC’s ear, nose, and throat clinic, made $546,519.
