Healthcare Valuation Blog

BuckheadFMV is pleased to present a new complimentary resource for home health and hospice industry leaders. Featured in the August 2022...

Healthcare leaders understand the importance of compliant transactions with physicians and seek to avoid any violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). But it can get tricky when the compensation is not monetary, so the Office of Inspector General (OIG) weighed in on a recent request for clarification. According to an advisory opinion (AO No. 22-14) dated June 29, 2022, an ophthalmology practice (Requestor) specializing in cataract and refractive surgery sought guidance on

In our work with health systems, we are sometimes asked to weigh in with an FMV compensation range that can be used as a retention...

The upheaval in today’s global job market is record-breaking. Whether this phenomenon will be known as the Great Resignation or the Great...

On February 15, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that Brockton Urology Clinic, LLC (“Brockton Urology”) will pay $100,000 to...

Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians normally practice medicine within hospital shift schedules and are often paid an hourly rate for actual hours worked. Typically, analyzing physician hourly rates for fair market value (FMV) involves the conversion of industry benchmarks (reported by well-known physician compensation surveys) from annual compensation amounts to hourly rates. For many medical specialties, analysists and appraisers default to a 2,000 or 2,080 hours-per-year den

On February 9, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that Catholic Medical Center (CMC) will pay $3.8 million to settle allegations...

Before discussing compensation with a future employer or with a candidate whom you want to employ, it can be helpful to clarify the...

This spring, BuckheadFMV will resume data collection for our annual physician call coverage burden and compensation survey (expected...

2021 was a growth year for BuckheadFMV. We ended the year with five credentialed appraisers, clients across the country and industry...

Paying physicians for meeting attendance is fairly common; however, it involves a significant amount of regulatory risk. BFMV provides...

BFMV offers a just-in-time consulting service for physicians facing compensation negotiations, including first-timers' entry to the...

U.S. healthcare organizations have experienced many shocks this past year and a half, beginning with the onset of COVID in early 2020...

U.S. healthcare organizations have experienced many shocks over the last year and a half, beginning with the onset of COVID in early 2020...

A $37.5 million civil settlement for a joint resolution with the US Department of Justice, the California Department of Justice, Southern...