

The Impact of Clinical Specialty on Physician Leader Pay
In August 2025, BFMV issued the latest edition of its Physician Leaders Compensation Report . The report is based on Form 990 data filed by nonprofit hospitals and health systems across the country. It includes statistics on compensation paid to physicians in leadership positions in hospitals, medical groups, and other types of organizations. In the clinical realm, a physician’s specialty is a primary determinant of compensation. BFMV researched the clinical specialties of
Nov 4


CMIO Compensation in Nonprofit Hospitals: A Longitudinal Study
In August 2025, BFMV analyzed Form 990 data filed by nonprofit hospitals and health systems across the country to find compensation paid...
Sep 16


Industry Trends of Physician Staffing Companies’ After-Hours On-Call Services
BFMV’s Cost of Physician Staffing Services, 2025 (“CPSS”) includes data sourced from government contracts with 95 physician staffing...
Sep 12


7 Key Takeaways from the 2024 BFMV Physician Leaders Compensation Report
BFMV recently released the 2025 Physician Leaders Compensation Report . Our primary interest in undertaking this study was tracking...
Sep 8


4 Insights from BFMV’s 2025 Physician Call Coverage Burden & Compensation Survey
Every year, BFMV conducts a national direct-to-physician call coverage survey. This project offers valuable insights that inform our...
Aug 20


New Release: 2025 BFMV Physician Leaders Compensation Report
BFMV is pleased to present the 2025 edition of our newest resource for the healthcare industry. We researched publicly reported...
Aug 6


Contract Physician On-Site Hourly Rates Have Risen by almost 9%
BFMV’s Cost of Physician Staffing Services, 2025 (“CPSS”) includes data sourced from government contracts with 107 physician staffing companies located across the country. These companies supply government healthcare providers, such as VA hospitals or clinics, with the medical personnel necessary to fill temporary physician vacancies. The companies included in the CPSS also provide these services to non-government clients. When a physician staffing firm becomes a governmen
Jul 10


Product Release: 2025 BFMV Cost of Physician Staffing Services Report
BuckheadFMV announces the release of the 2025 Cost of Physician Staffing Services Report. The report compiles pricing data included in 107 government contracts for physician staffing services. Download the free executive summary here . Benchmarks include average, median, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentile hourly rates charged by commercial staffing companies for on-site physician staffing services and after-hours physician call coverage. Approximately 87 specialties and allied h
Jul 8


Just Released: 2025 BFMV Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey
BFMV is pleased to announce the release of our 2025 BFMV Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey . Through our direct-to-physician approach, we received responses from over 1,800 physicians across a wide range of specialties, geographies, demographic settings, and employers. The survey includes unique on-call burden and compensation information, much of which is unavailable from other survey resources, including the following: Compensation (hourly and per 24-ho
Jun 13


How Some Physicians Make Above 90th Percentile Compensation
In our work with health systems, we sometimes consider an FMV range for compensation that can be used as part of a retention strategy for a high-value employed physician. These situations usually involve a “flight-risk” physician whose employment is essential for a critical service line, and whom the employer is typically highly motivated to retain. From time to time , during related negotiations, such a physician requests compensation above the regional market’s 90th percent
May 15


Early Bird $500 Discount on Access to 2025 Call Survey Findings
The 2025 BFMV Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey is in data collection, and findings will be coming soon... You’re invited to take advantage of a $500 early bird discount on access to the survey findings to be released in mid-June. (The regular subscription price is $3,500.) Use 2025EB$500 at checkout in our shop . Offer expires 12:00 NOON EST, June 13, 2025. A 1-Year Subscription to the 2025 BFMV Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey Inc
May 6


Physicians Must Exercise Caution when Entering Medical Laboratory Arrangements
The Department of Justice (DOJ) news page features several noteworthy settlements related to individual physicians involved in alleged medical laboratory kickback schemes. Enforcement action is likely to continue in the medical lab industry, which is upward of $250.9 billion in size and still growing. [1] Physicians who are key to this growth may not realize the extent of their exposure to prosecution in arrangements that seem like win-wins. However, common threads throughou
May 5


Double Check wRVUs
Work RVUs (wRVUs) are commonly used to measure physician productivity, a ccounting for the technical skills, physical effort, mental effort, judgment, and the amount of time required to perform a given service or procedure. Under many physician compensation plans, a physician is paid a specific dollar amount per wRVU generated. Significant amounts of money may be tied to wRVUs, so it is important that health systems and physicians have confidence that wRVU totals accurately r
Apr 16


Red Flags for Physicians Considering Paid Speaking Engagements
Recently, DOJ announced that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, on behalf of its subsidiary, Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (“Biohaven”), has agreed to pay nearly $60 million to resolve allegations that Biohaven knowingly caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs by paying kickbacks to health care providers (“HCPs”) to induce prescriptions of Biohaven’s migraine drug Nurtec ODT before Pfizer acquired the company. The set
Mar 27


Compensating Radiologists for Contrast Supervision
New revenue opportunities have opened up for radiology groups with CMS’ extension of flexibilities for the virtual supervision of radiology studies performed with contrast media. The extension allows facilities to provide Level 2 diagnostic tests, including CT and MRI scans, with a remotely located supervising provider through (at least) December 31, 2025. Before the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, CT and MRI with contrast procedures had to be supervised by onsite physicians who w
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