Physician Compensation

In the new value-based reimbursement environment, co-management arrangements can align the interests of physicians and hospitals. Here's what you need to know.

Being able to decide how many days you want to see patients is great for raising kids. But, it can cramp the family budget. How do you balance both?

Our Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, indicates greater physician acceptance of alternate practice models to help themselves and patients.

Not only is it important that physicians report payments via the Sunshine Act, but also verify they match the amount the gift-giver is also reporting to CMS.

The deadline for reviewing records and reporting compliance with the Sunshine Act is Aug. 27. There are several tools to make that task easier for physicians.

The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, the generator of RVUs, is still viable despite the changing nature of physician compensation.

Your medical practice's value plays an important part in its future. Here are six ways to boost your practice's value, starting today.

Value-based reimbursement has a bad reputation because it is misunderstood. Done correctly, through an IPA, it could be primary care’s saving grace.

With costs front and center for patients, in simple and stark terms: If you can’t deliver what the consumer perceives as quality, you will lose.

By helping patients and their families design a life care plan, physicians can help them to navigate the complexities of a catastrophic or serious injury.

One of the biggest challenges facing physicians in obtaining asset protection is selecting qualified counsel. Make sure you do your due diligence.

The patient experience is playing a growing role in medical practice reimbursement, physician certification, and payment incentives.

Understanding the terms and provisions within your disability policy will help you determine if you have the right coverage for your needs.

Proposed changes to the Physician Fee Schedule for 2015 will affect calculation of payment rates and potentially misvalued codes.

The concept of population health is straightforward. Achieving it, not so much, because it requires numerous fundamental changes in our delivery system.

Except where CPT guidelines state otherwise, follow these four tips to ensure you’re reporting time-based services correctly.

Despite higher than average incomes and education one asset that physicians surprisingly often fail to protect is their credit.

Knowing how to calculate RVU values is critical if you are going to apply them to any other applications. Here's a primer for your medical practice.

The near future for physicians: Dying mom and pop store owners in a big-box health plan, hospital system world trading lab coats for a branded apron.

Here are 10 tips for Medicare Advantage plans and their aligned physicians to maximize revenue when it comes to Hierarchical Condition Category coding.

Investment is a different profession than medicine, so please physicians, get help on getting the greatest returns, especially when it comes to real estate.

Four potential drawbacks of group disability protection, and what physicians should do about it.

The Highmark BCBS purchase of a Pittsburgh health system puts insurers in the thick of hospital competition and reduces physicians to the role of bystander.

Though salary is an important factor for physician retention, money is not the only thing that matters. Here are a few other things physicians are looking for in a job.

As part of its annual PayerView study, athenahealth outlines key areas where Medicaid is making business tough for physicians.

A look at some recent studies regarding differences between rural and urban physicians, and what they might mean for your practice.

It hasn’t dawned on Washington that hospitals and hospital systems will never commit financial suicide by reducing volume, and physicians will pay the price.

The "recredentialing trap," strict payment reviews, and fingerprinting are all underway or on the horizon as ways payers are bullying physicians.

How one physician transitioned to hybrid concierge, and how it is affecting his practice and his patients.

Fifteen months into a direct-pay practice, this physician recommends building a financial reserve first for any physician considering a similar path.