Healthcare Valuation Blog

BFMV is pleased to announce the release of our Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey 2021. Through our direct-to-physician approach, we received responses from almost 1,600 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-hour

A less well-known, but noteworthy, exception to the Stark Law permits hospitals to grant financial subsidies to private practice physicians in support of recruitment and employment of non-physician practitioners (NPPs) in high-need fields within their communities. Available to primary care and mental health service providers, this particular NPP umbrella includes physician assistants (PAs), nurse practitioners (NPs), certified nurse-midwives, clinical social workers, and psyc

BuckheadFMV announces the release of the Cost of Physician Staffing Services Report, 2021. The report compiles pricing data included in 100 government contracts for physician staffing services. Benchmarks include average, median, and 25th, 75th and 90th percentile hourly rates charged by commercial staffing companies for on-site physician staffing services and after-hours physician call coverage. More than 80 specialties and allied health fields are represented. The report is

Among the slew of operational decisions involved in medical practice transactions, human resource matters call for careful consideration....

A Texas-based hospice agency and a related home health company recently paid a $1.8 million settlement related to allegations of improper...

Updates to Medicare’s primary payment system for physician services mean significant increases for some providers, and likely severe...

The severity of infection and high incidence of COVID-19 transmission arguably qualify certain physicians for hazard pay during this...

The healthcare landscape is experiencing a shift as social media allows global communities instant access to a variety of medical...

BFMV is pleased to announce the release of our Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey 2020. Through our...

In February 2020, BuckheadFMV analyzed Form 990 data filed by nonprofit hospitals across the country to find compensation paid to Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIO). A CMIO is a licensed physician in a senior leadership role who is responsible for the development and implementation of an organization's clinical information systems. Form 990s include compensation data for officers, directors, trustees, and employees of an organization whose reportable compensation from

Earlier this year, BFMV decided to conduct a direct-to-physician call coverage survey for a number of reasons. Perhaps the primary reason was that we wanted to better understand the "burden" of off-site/unrestricted call coverage generally, and more specifically, how (and if) it impacts compensation. For this reason, we surveyed physicians directly rather than facilities, since physicians are the party with direct knowledge of a variety of burden-related factors (phone calls

Earlier this week, Modern Healthcare reported on comments made by Seema Verma at the Federation of American Hospitals' policy conference...

A common assignment for a health care valuation consultant is to review a proposed employment agreement between a hospital (employer) and...

According to our review of current GSA price lists, the average cost of a locum tenens physician is approximately $1,700 per day compared...

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