Physician Compensation

This physician takes full responsibility for maximizing his practice revenue, by focusing on what he calls the four P's of exemplary patient care.

One important skill that helped you become a physician can also help you become financially successful. Unfortunately, many forget it after residency.

With revenues plummeting and overhead increasing, cardiologists are considering concierge medicine too, to help them stay afloat.

It's a complicated issue when physicians express an interest in cutting back hours. Here are six key issues to consider if this occurs at your medical practice.

Ancillary services, like toxicology screening, are part of good patient treatment. So let’s stop scolding docs for getting paid for doing it.

Get complete results of our 2014 Physician Compensation Survey for national views and insight on payments to doctors.

Election Day winners promise the Affordable Care Act will fail. But what if it had actually had been given a chance to work?

As CMS' bureaucracy morphs meaningful use quality reports to meaningless busywork, it converts quality incentives to penalties to enforce compliance.

2015 is a crucial year to prove cost and quality as a Medicare provider. Here's what you need to know to avoid financial penalties down the line.

Despite a recent expose by The Wall Street Journal, the in-office ancillary exception to the Stark Law will remain the most commonly used tool by practices.

Successful practices make it a priority to assess patient satisfaction regularly. Here's how to improve satisfaction scores and boost patient ratings.

Anders M. Gilberg of the MGMA provides his views on whether accountable care organizations are a sustainable healthcare model.

Here are some guidelines to measure the true value of your medical practice, including a look at post-transaction compensation.

Physician sellouts to hospitals, hospital cabals, clueless and complicit regulators, lawmakers, and reporters create a perfect storm of greed and incompetence.

CMS has unveiled its Open Payments website, revealing gifts to physicians. Here's what you need to know about the site and its information.

If I really wanted to make lots of money, I could certainly go elsewhere. I choose to stay here and make a difference.

Here are 10 advantages of joining a physician-owned mega group.

The insanity of CMS' Open Payments portal might benefit physicians. The key is a little civil disobedience to demonstrate the true value of physician time.

Most physicians want a favorable practice environment. If you want to know where to find it, here's our annual ranking of the best states to practice.

Physicians in small practice need to explore how they can survive in a changing financial environment.

Every investment or venture into which a physician enters must be carefully scrutinized to assure compliance with several state and federal laws.

In a new ruling, CMS agrees to partially pay pending hospital claims in exchange for withdrawal of claims appeals.

Confused about how the healthcare system is going to change? Let's follow the money to find the answers, starting with recent news from CMS.

How a five-physician internal medicine practice nixed its payer contracts and began charging patients directly for services.

If you have been terminated by a provider, or notified you will be terminated, here's what you should know to know your recourse as a medical practice.

Sometimes, procedures lack RVU values for a reason. If you must, however, here are two strategies to use when assigning RVU values on your own.

Companies are pushing physician-based telemedicine as a solution. But, while promoters may have not thought things through, physicians must.

Leasing your medical practice to a hospital? You may want to consider these 15 contract provisions to ensure your practice is protected for the future.

Increasing revenue and decreasing practice expenses are often misguided goals. Each is a proxy for the more effective goal of increasing net income.

How your practice can succeed in Stage 2 of the EHR incentive program despite more complex requirements and higher reporting thresholds.