Before deciding to pay a physician for a service, it is important to determine if it commercially reasonable to pay for the position. One area to be careful of hidden overpayments is in paying too many medical directors.
Hospitals often sweeten the deal for physicians by offering them a medical directorship. However, they don’t always look at how many other physicians they have also given this same deal. For example, if your facility has nine cardiologists and is giving each one a medical directorship; they are probably not all commercially reasonable positions to pay.
Because MD Ranger collects comprehensive contract information from our subscribers, we are able to determine the percentage of subscribers who report paying for the service. For Obstetrics/Gynecology, 16% of our subscribers report paying for medical directors. Of those, the graph below shows how many positions of Ob/Gyn medical direction they pay.
If you have more questions about whether your organization is paying too many medical directors, reach out to us at inquiries@mdranger.com.
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