While there might not have been sufficient financial pressure for the sprawling 12-hospital system to overcome the hurdles of integration before, there certainly is now.

The Mass General Brigham CEO received a hefty 40% raise, the latest available tax records show, with the hospital system now saying it must roll out mass layoffs to quell a looming budget deficit. Mass General Brigham (MGB) CEO and President Anne Klibanski saw her pay rocket from about $4.

BOSTON - Mass General Brigham, the largest health care system in Massachusetts, announced layoffs Monday that will affect hundreds of workers, citing a $250 million projected budget gap.

Its flagship academic medical centers in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, anchor a health care hub that is arguably the best in the country, if not the world. Reimbursement rates from insurers are growing more slowly than expenses.

Nonprofit giant Mass General Brigham will be laying off numerous nonclinical employees to close major budget shortfalls. | The major nonprofit system declined to put a number on the cuts and consolidations,

Mass General Brigham announced mass layoffs aimed to bridge a $250 million budget gap projected over the next two years in a letter to employees Monday — meaning potentially hundreds of

Facing rising costs and hoping to make its sprawling network more efficient, the state’s largest private employer aims to cut payroll costs by over $200 million.