MD Ranger Report Series

Physician Contract Benchmarks at Your Fingertips

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MD Ranger's reports deliver a comprehensive set of easy-to-use benchmarks for a wide range of emergency call coverage, medical direction, leadership and administrative services, hospital-based group services, and diagnostic testing and clinical services. Our benchmarks are based on subscriber data and the founders' proprietary contract database, encompassing more than 150 hospitals, 3,500 contracts and 20 states.

Emergency Call Coverage

This report contains percentile ranges for a broad scope of call coverage services. Benchmarks are reported for:

  • Mean, median, 25th percentile, and 75th percentile per diem payments
  • Proportion of facilities that do not compensate physicians for call services
  • Types of physician payment systems
  • Other elements including hospital payer mix and size, whether practice activities are restricted while a physician is on call, or the number of sites covered by a panel.


Medical Direction, Leadership, and Administrative Services

This report contains physician contract payment ranges for medical directorship, administrative, and leadership services. In addition to the standard payment benchmarks, the reporting and analysis includes:

  • Minimum and/or maximum hours per year for medical directors
  • Total compensation per year and per hour for medical directors
  • The relationship, if any, between compensation rate and physician specialty
  • Proportion of facilities that do not compensate physicians for medical direction or administrative duties


Hospital-Based Services and Other Contractual Arrangements (coming in 2010)

This report includes services covered by physician groups contracting with a hospital to provide comprehensive coverage services, including on-site coverage, on-call or emergency department coverage, clinical services, administration and medical direction. We will report on the scope of service, compensation methods, and the relationships between rates and beds, census, and other factors that may prove significant. The following services may be reported:

  • Anesthesia
  • Critical Care/Intensivists
  • Radiology
  • Hospitalists (including subspecialty programs)
  • Clinical laboratory and pathology
  • Neonatology and perinatology
  • Acute inpatient dialysis technical services payments
  • Selected pediatric subspecialties


Diagnostic Testing and Clinical Services (coming in 2010)

Many hospitals have contracts to pay physicians to provide these services, and collect the professional fees on their behalf. MD Ranger's survey will be the first to benchmark these diagnostic services payments. The following services may be reported:

  • Acute dialysis
  • Pulmonary function testing
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  • Echocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiogram (EKG)
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity
  • Audiology/hearing
  • Calcium scoring


    • Custom Reports

    The extensive MD Ranger database may be used to evaluate unique physician contracting situations and significant factors that affect physician compensation, such as level of service, depth of coverage, provision for unsponsored patients, multi-campus arrangements, and dual-panel arrangements. Custom reports and consulting services will be available through MD Ranger and its affiliated consulting firms, Cattaneo & Stroud, Inc. and HealthWorks, Inc. to analyze situations not included in the Standard Reports.

    All MD Ranger reports comply with federal requirements for the anti-trust safety zone.

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MD Ranger Endorsements

We have been very pleased with our association with MD Ranger, especially with the speed of their responses, and their willingness to help on short notice. The data they have sent us has been very helpful as we negotiate payments with physicians.

– Catherine Lindstrom, Vice President, John C. Lincoln Health Network

"MD Ranger founders are true leaders in the field of FMV analysis and consulting. This is an exciting new product that should simplify contract negotiations and compliance by advancing health care providers' knowledge of the range of appropriate payment for call coverage and medical direction services."

– Sarah J. Diboise, Esquire, Chief Hospital Counsel, Stanford University Medical Center & Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

"MD Ranger is an exciting new company that provides hospital-physician contract rate benchmarks to help negotiate fair rates and to document fair market value. The innovative method MD Ranger has developed provides hospitals ready access to an unprecedented set of timely, accurate benchmarks."

– John Koeneke, Manager of Business Development, Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association