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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...
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...
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...
Jan 18, 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...
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 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...
Oct 19, 2023
4 Settlements for Alleged Improper Payments for Lease Arrangements and Medical Director Services
Four home healthcare settlements related to improper payments to physicians have been announced by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”). ...
Sep 25, 2023
$3.8 Million Settlement Related to Improper SNF Medical Director Payments
Medical director arrangements at skilled nursing facilities (“SNF(s)”) have been under federal scrutiny for the past few years (2021 blog...
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...
Aug 31, 2023
Hospital Self-Disclosure Led to Settlement with DOJ
In April 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that Sibley Memorial Hospital (“SMH”) and its parent company, Johns Hopkins...
Aug 15, 2023
Physician Call Coverage Compensation: 6 Key Background Statistics from the 2023 BFMV Survey
Earlier this year, BFMV conducted our fifth annual direct-to-physician call coverage survey. An affordable source of physician call...
