August 28th 2025
Enhance patient care with five strategies to streamline referrals, ensuring seamless specialty care and reducing risks for your practice.
August 26th 2025
With hundreds of options on the market, here’s how to find a system that truly works for your practice.
August 25th 2025
Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.
August 21st 2025
Practical, front-desk-tested tips to improve patient flow, reduce stress and boost satisfaction.
August 19th 2025
Explore key factors to consider before outsourcing in medical practices, balancing efficiency gains with potential risks and control challenges.
Quality Programs Physicians Should Heed
Do yourself a favor: participate in as many quality programs as make sense for your practice.
2015 Physician Compensation Survey: Key Findings
The 2015 Physician Compensation Survey asked doctors with different employment statuses how much they got paid. Here are some key findings.
2015 Physician Compensation Survey Results
Physician Credentialing Mistakes to Avoid
Opportunity for human error abounds where physician credentialing is concerned, which can expose your medical practice to financial loss.
Improving Practice-Payer Collaboration
Practices can often feel helpless when it comes to working with payers. Here's how they can change that dynamic and become empowered.
Get Creative with Physician Compensation
Changes in healthcare mean considering different compensation models, including alignment compensation.
Pay for Performance Pays off in 50,000 Fewer Deaths
Rarely does the federal government hand physicians a tool that makes life a little better. That’s what OIG Opinion 12-22 does, and now data backs up the theory.
How I Plan to Preserve My Medical Practice Income
This physician takes full responsibility for maximizing his practice revenue, by focusing on what he calls the four P's of exemplary patient care.
Revitalizing Medical Practice Revenue Streams
Physician compensation wasn't stellar last year, but don't give up. There are plenty of ways to jump-start your practice operations to maximize what you've got.
2014 Physicians Compensation Survey
Get complete results of our 2014 Physician Compensation Survey for national views and insight on payments to doctors.
Here's Why I Continue to Practice Medicine in Maryland
If I really wanted to make lots of money, I could certainly go elsewhere. I choose to stay here and make a difference.
Revisions to Payment Policies in 2015 Physician Fee Schedule
Proposed changes to the Physician Fee Schedule for 2015 will affect calculation of payment rates and potentially misvalued codes.
How Medical Practices Can Retain Their Top Physicians
Though salary is an important factor for physician retention, money is not the only thing that matters. Here are a few other things physicians are looking for in a job.
Do Rural Doctors Make More Money, Have Higher Job Satisfaction?
A look at some recent studies regarding differences between rural and urban physicians, and what they might mean for your practice.
How Can Patient Satisfaction Surveys More Fairly Measure Physicians?
More practices and payers are tying a portion of physician pay to patient satisfaction scores. But it may come with unintended consequences.
Examining the Medicare SGR and Why it is Truly Bad for Physicians
Each year we hear about the "flawed" SGR formula, but what's really wrong with it? Here's a look at the physician reimbursement model up for debate each year.
Maximizing Physician Compensation at Your Medical Practice
Our Physician Compensation Survey offers a glimpse into the financial challenges and opportunities for physicians.
2013 Physician Compensation Survey
Wondering where your compensation falls on the continuum? Our 2013 Physician Compensation Survey gives you both national and regional data.
The Continuing Evolution of Physician Compensation
The MGMA's Donna Knapp and Todd Evenson discuss current and looming quality and cost factors that are playing a role in physician compensation.
Creating a Value-Based Medical Practice
Consultant John Lutz discusses the transition from volume- to value-based healthcare and how medical practices can begin preparing today.
Patients, Quality Metrics Playing More of a Role in Physician Pay
Should quality measures and patient satisfaction help determine a physician's pay?
RVUs Still Relevant Despite Reimbursement Shift
Value-based physician compensation incentives are gaining momentum, but aren’t going away any time soon.
Medicare Pay Cut Averted but Uncertainty Remains for Physicians
Doctors can breathe a sigh of relief as a Medicare pay cut of nearly 30 percent is narrowly averted - at least temporarily.
Pay Hikes for Primary-Care Doctors Scheduled
Family physicians, general internists, and pediatricians can look forward to Medicare and Medicaid pay increases in 2013.
Docs Saying No to Medicare; Paying Patients to Use Cheaper Services
Noteworthy items from Physicians Practice.
Physician Compensation: What’s the Right Formula?
In our 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, we asked physicians from around the country how - and how much - they're being paid. Here's what we learned.
2012 Physician Compensation Survey Data
Here's the full data for the Physicians Practice 2012 Physician Compensation Survey, based on more than 1,300 respondents.
Physician Compensation Plan
As medical practices begin participating in value-based reimbursement initiatives, physician compensation plans must change. Here’s how.
Six Characteristics of ‘High-Performing’ Health Systems
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) recently defined a “high-performing health system.” Does your health system make the cut?
Current Reimbursement System Devalues Primary-care Physicians
We have a marketplace that often values the time of lawyers more than the care provided by physicians. Something has to change.