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Hospital-Based

Incentives in Hospital-Based Agreements Continue to Grow

Unlike the majority of call coverage, leadership, and medical direction contracts, hospital-based agreements often include incentive payments.

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Posted on
October 10, 2017
Hospital-Based
Medical Direction Contracts

Hospital-Based Agreements Often Only Pay for Direction

Let’s examine hospital-based service contracts and what components make up these sorts of agreements.

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Posted on
October 3, 2017
Medical Direction Contracts

Research/Data Management Paces Leadership and Administrative Roles for Most Hours Worked

Let’s take a look at agreements for physician leadership and administrative roles and examine which services reported the highest median hours worked per year.

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Posted on
September 26, 2017
ED Call Coverage
Medical Direction Contracts

Emergency Medicine Medical Directors Top the Charts for Most Hours Worked

Let’s look at medical directorship agreements and examine which services reported the highest median hours worked per year.

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Posted on
September 18, 2017
Compliance
Cost Management

Operational and Financial Management of Physician Agreements

We recently spoke with Gail Peace, CEO of Ludi, about how hospitals are managing physician contracts from both an operational and finacnial perspective

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Posted on
September 12, 2017
ED Call Coverage

Plastic Surgery Shows Largest Call Coverage Per Diem Growth

Explore which call coverage agreements have had the largest dollar increases in their median call coverage rates since 2009

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Posted on
September 5, 2017
ED Call Coverage

Call Coverage Rates Remain High for Trauma Services

Trauma Neurosurgery, the largest individual call coverage per diem rate, is more than double those of the fourth place service (neurosurgery) and nearly three times those of the fifth place service (OB Anesthesia)

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Posted on
August 29, 2017
ED Call Coverage

Using Market Data for Commercial Reasonableness in Call Coverage Agreements

In this post, we’re going to focus on looking at which specialties are most likely to be paid call coverage and how that information can be used to evaluate commercial reasonableness.

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Posted on
August 22, 2017
Compliance

Reasons Your Physician Contracts Need Long-Term Attention

By Pascale Dargis, guest blogger from Ludi

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Posted on
August 15, 2017
Compliance

If a Service Doesn't Implicate Stark Law, How Do You Determine FMV?

We ask our Founder and EVP Michael Heil to answer the question

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Posted on
April 3, 2017