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Darcy Devine and Melanie Rosebrock
- Dec 27, 2022
Red Flags for Physicians Considering Paid Speaking Engagements
In December 2022, a Sarasota, Florida, pain management physician was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900 in kickbacks and bribes. According to evidence presented at trial, in less than three years, the physician’s prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl sublingual spray used to relieve breakthrough pain in cancer patients, had amounted to over $4.5 million in Medicare Part D payments to Insys Therapeutics, Inc., the drug’s ma
Melanie Rosebrock, CVA
- Dec 19, 2022
BuckheadFMV Releases New Benchmark Report on Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Prices
January 2023 BuckheadFMV has released an updated resource for healthcare and valuation professionals, the BFMV Benchmark Report for Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Prices. Based on data collected by BFMV staff for the 36 months preceding publication, the report provides price benchmarks for over 800 different models of pre-owned medical equipment. Benchmarks are sorted by category, manufacturer/brand, and model, making the report easy to use and saving countless research hours fo
Will Hamilton
- Dec 8, 2022
Valuing Healthcare Non-Compete Covenants
Healthcare noncompete laws have been in the news recently as a widespread revision process appears to be underway. In 2022, 30 bills have been proposed across 29 states involving healthcare noncompete provisions. The Federal Trade Commission has held public workshops to assess the best course for limiting non-competes, and the Department of Justice has brought several legal actions challenging noncompete covenants that may have violated anti-trust laws. Noncompete provisions
Briana Gordon, CVA
- Dec 5, 2022
CMS's 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: How Will it Affect Your Physician Compensation Plan?
In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the finalized Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2023. With the release, CMS executes the second phase of its broader initiative to overhaul its coding and payment policies for evaluation and management (E&M) services. Two years ago, the agency significantly modified the current procedural terminology (CPT) for office visit E&Ms, which included changing the coding guidelines to allow providers to
