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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

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

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

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 throughout

Work RVUs (wRVUs) are commonly used to measure physician productivity, accounting 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 re

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 sett

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

The BFMV Cost of Physician Staffing Services is a publication released by BFMV in the spring of each year. The study analyzes government contracts with physician staffing companies representing 88 physician specialties across the U.S. to determine rates paid to fill physician vacancies at government facilities. After-Hours Coverage vs ED On-Call A helpful insight from the BFMV Cost of Physician Staffing Services (CPSS) shows how organizations pay physicians for providing aft

As part of the 2024 BFMV Physician Leaders Compensation Report , BFMV analyzed Form 990 [1] data filed by non-profit hospitals and...

Every year, BFMV conducts a national direct-to-physician call coverage survey. This project offers valuable insights that inform our fair...

The United States recently joined a whistleblower complaint against Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Erlanger Health System (“Erlanger”),...

Earlier this year, BFMV conducted our sixth annual direct-to-physician call coverage survey. An affordable source of physician call...

BFMV is pleased to present the 2024 edition of our newest resource for the healthcare industry. We researched publicly reported...

BFMV’s Cost of Physician Staffing Services, 2024 (“CPSS”) includes data sourced from government contracts with 99 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 government co

BuckheadFMV announces the release of the 2024 Cost of Physician Staffing Services Report. The report compiles pricing data included in 99...