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Mar 28, 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 20, 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 1, 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...
Feb 27, 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 12, 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...
Jan 31, 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 submit...
Dec 27, 2023
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 12, 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 5, 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...
Nov 30, 2023
CMS’s 2024 Final Rule Reduces Conversion Factor by 3.37%
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently issued the Final Rule announcing the 2024 policy changes for Medicare,...
Nov 28, 2023
$45.6 Million Settlement Related to Improper Medical Director Payments at 6 SNFs
In November 2023, Prema Thekkek, her management company, Paksn Inc. (“Paksn”), and 6 SNFs that are owned by Thekkek or managed by Paksn...
Nov 22, 2023
Notable OIG Advisory Opinion: Favorable Toward Employed Physician Bonuses Based on ASC Collections
In October 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion No....
Nov 17, 2023
Valuing Physician-Performed NP and PA Supervisory Services
Medical practices commonly hire nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) to boost productivity, improve healthcare...
Nov 6, 2023
BFMV Perspective: The Physician Shortage, Patient Access, and FMV
Major access to care issues in the US, stemming from a physician shortage, have been a looming concern since the early 2000s. Deficits...
Sep 22, 2023
5 Insights from BFMV’s 2023 Physician Call Coverage Burden & Compensation Survey
Every year, BFMV conducts a national direct-to-physician call coverage survey. This project offers valuable insights that inform our fair...
