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If you’re a compliance officer or work in compliance or legal at your organization, ask yourself if you know any physicians who work at your hospital.
We sometimes see differential payment rates for weekend and weekday coverage shifts. Are holidays any different?
Are holidays any different? We found a measurable difference in payment rates when differential rates are paid for weekends and holidays with an important caveat
In order to ensure that payments to physicians were in accordance with their agreement, auditors must work with finance, legal, and compliance.
Here are some quick tips to avoid stacking in the first place.
Risks for overpayments are things like paying above FMV, or paying for too many hours per administrative deal are straightforward to discover with careful review and analysis of contracts.
Stacking has come to greater prominence following an OIG advisory opinion that defines problematic compensation structures.
Maintaining best practices and having clear strategies for every negotiation can help smooth out organizational processes and ensure the eventual contract remains compliant.
We’ll examine which medical and surgical physician specialties have seen the largest percent growth in their per diem call coverage payments, comparing MD Ranger’s 2017 physician contracting benchmarks to 2009’s benchmarks.
In addition to looking at physician contract benchmarks for call coverage, medical direction, and hospital-based agreements, MD Ranger examines aggregate spending on physician contracts at the facility level.
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