By Andis Robeznieks August 09, 2010 While the healthcare reform debate heated up the nation's airwaves and cyberspace in 2009, physician salaries saw some significant cooling, according to the 17th annual Physician Compensation Survey conducted by Modern Healthcare, Modern Physician's sister publication. ... FULL STORY
By Maureen McKinney July 26, 2010 Proposed changes to the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, the CMS' effort to aggregate claims-based quality data and reward the physicians who submit them, are meeting with no small amount of... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks September 28, 2009 For hospital chief medical officers, 2008 was a good year as they saw their compensation increase 12.5%, up to $315,991 from $280,851, compared with the 4% pay increase received by group practice CMOs who were paid $304,822, up from $293,027, according to the 2008-09 Survey of Chief Medical... ... FULL STORY
By Gregg Blesch September 14, 2009 How much is it appropriate for a hospital to pay a physician? Without explaining how the line was drawn, the Justice Department says it was crossed in Waterloo, Iowa, when Covenant Medical Center paid a handful of employed specialists sums as high as $1.8 million apiece. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 27, 2009 Intense competition for physician services, failing economic conditions, crushing medical school debt, and myriad other positive and negative forces are having a curious side effect: More young doctors are considering rural areas for their first place to practice. ... FULL STORY
February 09, 2009 If lawmakers have their way, group purchasing organizations will be among the companies required to report any ownership interest or payments that they provide to doctors, according to new draft legislation for the long-anticipated Physician Payments Sunshine Act. ... FULL STORY
January 12, 2009 Part-time doc employees have the same status as full-time doc employees, according to an OIG advisory opinion. As a result, paying those docs' wages for services performed on publicly insured patients would not violate federal anti-kickback laws, the OIG says. ... FULL STORY
September 08, 2008 The CMS has soothed the nerves of providers with its latest round of revisions to the Stark restrictions on physician self-referral. ... FULL STORY
August 11, 2008 CoxHealth President and CEO Robert Bezanson made the most of his first chance to speak publicly about a three-year federal investigation into the two-hospital system’s financial arrangements with physicians. ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks July 21, 2008 According to at least one healthcare compensation expert, because of a shrinking supply of doctors and increasing demand, some physicians may soon see their services “turn into a barrel of oil,” meaning they could become a commodity being priced so high that healthcare organizations have to get... ... FULL STORY
By Jay Greene January 21, 2008 Total compensation for chief medical officers rose significantly for managed-care organizations in 2006, but CMOs at medical groups, hospitals and integrated health systems achieved only modest salary gains, according to a new compensation survey. The largest annual pay raise went to CMOs at... ... FULL STORY
By Andis Robeznieks August 06, 2007 Supply and demand mixing with quality-of-life issues drove the results of Modern Physician’s annual physician compensation survey, which shows oncologists, pathologists and psychiatrists receiving on average double-digit pay increases in 2007, and the average compensation for orthopedic... ... FULL STORY
