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Determining if a health care organization’s payment to a physician is commercially reasonable can be a challenge.
Our 6 Compliance Pitfalls in Hospital-Based Physician Contracts Bullseye discusses the key compliance issues with hospital-based contracts, including the following
Commercial reasonableness has been the focus of a number of recent settlements for Stark, Anti-Kickback, and False Claims Act violations.
MD Ranger’s robust database combines verified hospital and facility data with proprietary data drawn from the founders’ thousands of fair market value opinions written over the past decade.
Our Stacking Physician Agreements: Identifying and Preventing Risks white paper will help you understand how the subtle but significant compliance risk of stacking physician agreements can occur.
Our Compliance Risk Checklist outlines steps to transform your compliance department and contracting procedures.
Hospital administrators know that the physician contracting process involves many steps in order to get it right and to maintain the best possible relationships with physicians. Wouldn't it be great to have a checklist to standardize the process?
In this webinar, learn how to navigate your way through physician contracts, including the following
The average hospital spends 3-5% of its total operating budget on physician contracts for emergency coverage, administrative positions, and hospital-based service agreements.
Choosing a valuation firm is an important decision for your organization's physician contracting program. Selecting a firm that understands your organization and produces work to your standards takes careful evaluation. Watch this short 5-minute video, and learn the following
Understanding how outliers affect market data and what to do if your contract falls outside market ranges is an important aspect of a physician contracting compliance program.
Market data can be a powerful tool to use as the foundation of your FMV process. Establishing simple, yet compliant, guidelines and policies is key. Download our guide for using market data for FMV documentation.
Our 6 Compliance Pitfalls in Hospital-Based Physician Contracts Bullseye discusses the key compliance issues with hospital-based contracts, including the following
Our What Everyone Should Know About Hospital-Based Physician Contracts white paper explains the details and key concepts to know about these complicated arrangements.
Over the last several decades, the number of hospital-based arrangements has been increasing.
Our 5 Signs an Organization Needs MD Ranger: A Guide for In House and External Counsel white paper discusses how to identify potential physician contracting complaince problems.
MD Ranger’s robust database combines verified hospital and facility data with proprietary data drawn from the founders’ thousands of fair market value opinions written over the past decade.
Physician contracting is a complex process and it is challenging to engage physicians to assist in administrative and quality initiatives that benefit health care facilities.
Our Medical Director Contracts: Challenges and Opportunities white paper discusses creating and monitoring a medical directorship contract.
We are pleased to share with you the second webinar of the series, The Definitive Guide to Medical Directorships. This report will describe how contracting rates have changed and the factors that do and don’t impact payment rates for medical directorships.
Positive relationships with physicians are important to the clinical and financial success of a healthcare organization.
Physician contract negotiations are a part of everyday life at hospitals and health systems. By thinking critically about arrangements and preparing for negotiations, hospitals executives can expect better outcomes and better physician relationships.
The Preparing for Physician Contract Negotiations Bullseye covers how to best prepare for your next physician contract negotiation and will outline best practices
The Dealing with Government Regulatory Intervention Bullseye discusses how to prepare for a CIA, including the following
Recent actions by the OIG make it clear that they are investigating physicians as well as hospitals when they suspect a physician contract violates Stark, Anti-Kickback, or False Claims Act regulations.
Do you know the key elements of Stark Law? Learn best practices for integrating Stark compliance into hospital physician contracting programs.