FMV BLOG

On March 7, 2018, the Department of Justice announced that a hospital and a physician group will pay $20.75 million to settle allegations of kickbacks and Stark Law violations. The case started with a qui tam lawsuit filed by Dr. Tullio Emanuele, a cardiologist once employed by the group.[1] In an amended complaint filed November 30, 2012, Dr. Emanuele alleged that his former employer, Medicor, a private practice of cardiologists and internal medicine physicians, entered into

Work RVUs (wRVUs) are commonly used to measure physician productivity. Under many physician compensation plans, physicians are paid a specific dollar amount for each wRVU generated. Since a significant amount of money may be tied to wRVUs – it is important that employers calculate them correctly and have confidence that wRVU totals accurately reflect the amount of work done by their physicians. We recommend periodically testing wRVU inputs and related data to help make sure p