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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion for Consultants' Use of Gift Cards to Incentivize Customer Recommendations
In January 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) posted Advisory Opinion No....
May 7, 2024
The FTC Noncompete Ban Impact to Healthcare Employment
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule banning noncompete agreements nationwide in late April 2024. The rule is already...
May 3, 2024
MSOs and FMV
A Management Service Organization (MSO) is a type of entity that provides administrative and operational support services to healthcare...
Apr 24, 2024
Considerations for Paying Physicians to Attend Meetings
Paying physicians a stipend to attend meetings is a fairly common practice; however, it involves a significant amount of regulatory risk...
Mar 28, 2024
Is There Really an Industry Standard for Calculating On-Call Compensation?
In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) joined a second whistleblower complaint against a former executive at...
Mar 20, 2024
Valuation of MSO Management Fees for FMV Compliance
We are pleased to announce that BuckheadFMV has published a new free resource, the 2024 FMV Primer on MSO Management Fees . The purpose...
Mar 20, 2024
BFMV Report Shows Market Values for Used Medical Equipment Can Be Fairly Stable
The value of existing medical equipment is an important consideration in many hospital and physician practice transactions. BFMV has been...
Mar 1, 2024
Signing Bonuses Should Sit Out of Total Annual Compensation in a Fair Market Value Stacking Analyses
Signing bonuses are long-standing recruitment incentives used by hospitals to attract physician employees. The term “signing bonus” can...
Feb 27, 2024
BuckheadFMV Releases New Benchmark Report on Pre-Owned Medical Equipment Prices
February 2024 BuckheadFMV has released an updated resource for healthcare and valuation professionals, the BFMV Benchmark Report for...
Feb 12, 2024
Data Collection is Open for the Annual BFMV Physician Call Coverage Burden and Compensation Survey
The 2024 BFMV Call Coverage survey is open for data collection . If you are a physician or practice administrator who would like to...
Jan 31, 2024
$47 Million Kickback Settlement Related to Improper Coding and Billing for Physician Services
A Delaware-based health system has agreed to pay more than $47 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging violations of the...
Jan 18, 2024
When is it Reasonable to Ask an FMV Appraiser to Reconsider Their Opinion of Value?
In December 2023, an Indianapolis-based health system agreed to pay $345 million to settle allegations of False Claims Act and Stark Law...
Jan 10, 2024
Recent MSO Litigation Reminds Us to Thoroughly Vet Investment Opportunities
Management Services Organizations, or MSOs, provide administrative services to medical practices. These services may include human...
Dec 27, 2023
Our Top Takeaways from Nelson Mullins’ 2023 Value-Based Care Conference
BFMV partners Darcy Devine and Briana Gordon attended Nelson Mullins’ annual conference on value-based care in Fort Lauderdale on...
Dec 12, 2023
FMV, Call Burden, and the Changing Landscape of Ophthalmology Call Arrangements
For some specialties and markets, rapid evolution in the healthcare industry is seeding significant overhauls in call coverage...
Dec 5, 2023
