Healthcare Valuation Blog

Every year, BFMV conducts a national direct-to-physician call coverage survey. This project offers valuable insights that inform our fair market value appraisals. It also provides valuable information to participating physicians, who receive free access to the results. The direct-to-physician feature of our call survey differentiates it from other physician compensation surveys. In its inception, we wanted a survey that helped us better understand the off-site/unrestricted

Not only is BFMV’s seventh annual direct-to-physician call coverage survey an affordable source of physician call coverage compensation information, but it is also unique in that it provides statistics related to the "burden" of unrestricted call, including in-person visits and phone call volumes for a variety of specialties. The following is a summary of key burden statistics from the 2025 survey. 1. Median Days of Coverage per Month Data for physicians in cardiothoracic su

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

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

Not only is BFMV’s sixth annual direct-to-physician call coverage survey an affordable source of physician call coverage compensation...

In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) joined a second whistleblower complaint against a former executive at Illinois-based Cardiac Imaging Inc. (“CII”), a mobile imaging company providing diagnostic cardiac positron emission tomography (“PET”) services. The allegations echo those addressed by the $85 million settlement reached in October 2023, which resolved alleged False Claims Act violations caused by excessive payments made to referring cardiologists by

For some specialties and markets, rapid evolution in the healthcare industry is seeding significant overhauls in call coverage...

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

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

Not only is BFMV’s fifth annual direct-to-physician call coverage survey an affordable source of physician call coverage compensation...

According to our research of government contracts, the average cost of a contracted locum tenens physician is approximately $1,760 per...

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

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