Healthcare Valuation Blog

Medical practices commonly hire nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to boost productivity, improve healthcare access, and enhance profitability. Although the U.S. seems to be moving toward more autonomy and even full practice authority for PAs and NPs, every state in the US currently requires that PAs maintain a collaboration arrangement with a supervising physician. Many states require formal arrangements between NPs and supervising physicians, as well.

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...

Earlier this year, BFMV released the 2023 Physician Leaders Compensation Report, which reflects compensation for 3,462 physician leaders...

Retention bonuses have become commonplace inside and outside of the healthcare industry. These incentives are typically offered to...

BFMV is pleased to present our newest resource for the healthcare industry. We researched publicly reported information regarding...

BuckheadFMV announces the release of the Cost of Physician Staffing Services Report, 2023. The report compiles pricing data included in...

In December 2022, a Sarasota, Florida, pain management physician was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900 in kickbacks and bribes. According to evidence presented at trial, in less than three years, the physician’s prescriptions for Subsys, a fentanyl sublingual spray used to relieve breakthrough pain in cancer patients, had amounted to over $4.5 million in Medicare Part D payments to Insys Therapeutics, Inc., the drug’s ma

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

Based on a review of Medicare Part B data, physicians are using more moderate/high-level evaluation and management (E/M) codes over time....

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

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

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

On June 15, 2021, the United States filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against a California skilled nursing facility chain and...

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