Physician Compensation

Savings, strategies, and stocks.

Lessons from recent legal coverage.

Fundamentals to avoid costly mistakes in employment agreements.

Use telemedicine to improve your practice. 

Retirement plans, anticipating industry changes, and more.

Topics include serving on community boards and disappearing medical malpractice insurance.

Starting salaries analyzed from 1999 to 2017 shed some insights on pay gap controversy.

Audits cost providers as much as $1 million annually and damage relationships, but there is an upside a new study says. 

Program focuses on improving quality and reducing cost, while maintaining patient choice.

Innovative technologies are allowing staff to focus more on patient-facing, strategic activities and improve overall patient satisfaction.

Four new exceptions and four new safe harbors proposed.

Practices are using E&M codes to bill for non-physician educational visits, but is this ok?

Avoid these common risks to make your year more predictable and secure.

The truth is many physicians begin their careers at a financial disadvantage.

Questions you should ask yourself as you think about the future for yourself and your practice.

Year-over-year data found that salaraies are up all around - and you can take that to the bank.

If you're getting paid in work RVUS, then you need to understand what you’re being paid for and how to calculate your compensation.

Ensure your practice’s long-term health by educating patients about their financial responsibility and staff on how to improve medical billing and collections.

What steps have physicians taken to boost revenue at their practices? Physicians Practice's annual compensation survey answers this question and more.

Some deny that it is really an issue while others acknowledge it but don’t think it’s a problem. But it is a real issue that affects everyone. 

Explore factors that determine how locum tenens physicians pay rate and non-salary offerings are calculated-and whether that adds up to an attractive gig.

The physician shortage is more pronounced in rural communities, where access to healthcare is limited despite an increased need. Locum tenens doctors can benefit a community in need, and the community can offer advantages practically unheard of in the city.

Negotiating with health plans is not about who you are or what you do. It is about fair compensation for what you deliver.

Medicare as rolled out its “direct primary care prototype,” but physicians should look closer at the model as it’s not quite DPC.

Greater competition for services and other factors are resulting in pay raises-and other benefits-to physicians at many practices.