Executive Leadership Newsletters

Health Governance Report Healthcare Leadership Review Medicine on the Net Physician Compensation & Recruitment

This 12-page monthly business newsletter focuses on the specifics of actual physician pay plans used by medical group practices.

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

Physician Compensation & Recruitment

Issue 12, December 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Experts: Economic woes, physician demand, wRVUs to figure prominently in 2009

  We asked PCR advisory board members and other experts in physician compensation and recruitment to...

• Low reimbursement depresses compensation

  Nevertheless, pediatricians have high job satisfaction—at least for now With their...

• OIG, CMS promise increased scrutiny. Are you prepared yet?

  There’s death, taxes, and scrutiny from CMS and the OIG. With the release of the 2009 OIG...

Issue 11, November 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• In debt, heavily recruited, and aware of their value, residents are making their career decisions earlier

  Worried about debt and seeking work-life balance, residents are largely seeking employment-based...

• High demand, increased procedures drive compensation

  Urology remains among the most highly compensated specialties. In particular, pay for newly minted...

• Hospitals turn to employment model as on-call solution

  In the October PCR, we looked at findings from the 2008 Physician On-call Pay Survey Report, the...

Issue 10, October 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• On-call pay trends begin to stabilize, survey finds

  The tug-of-war between hospitals and physicians over on-call pay may be nearing a truce, and...

• Low compensation continues to create challenges

  Although neurology compensation continues to increase, neither the pay nor the rate of increase is...

Issue 9, September 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• IPPS, fee schedule contain new Stark changes

  CMS issued a slew of changes to the Stark self-referral law in 2007-including the much anticipated...

• Primary care reports bigger compensation increases than normal as specialists struggle to keep pace with inflation

  Although the results of the 2008 MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey-one of the most...

• Low comp creates geriatrician shortage as population ages

  With the number of older adults in the United States expected to nearly double by 2030, the need...

• Recruiters seek efficiency in ailing economy, tight market

  Physicians are in high demand, as the much-discussed staffing shortage and an ailing economy affect...

Issue 8, August 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Growing demand and steady profits keep orthopedic surgery compensation high

  Orthopedic surgeons may have initially been alarmed at the 4.3% compensation increase in the 2007...

• IMG physicians can ease looming shortage

  Doctors are doctors, regardless of where they hail from. But as the baby boomer generation...

• Choose the right on-call comp model for your hospital

  Paying physicians for ED call coverage is no longer simply a cost incurred by a hospital-for many...

• 'Float pool' offers alternative to locum tenens

  Practices have always had to handle temporary physician vacancies from maternity leave, a scheduled...

Issue 7, July 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Real estate slump hinders doctor recruitment

  Who would have guessed that the drop in home sales would dramatically affect how hospitals and...

• Ophthalmologists strive for efficiency to meet rising demand

  Rising demand for services coupled with an insufficient number of new physicians is pushing...

• Female physicians more satisfied despite earning less

  After several years of proposed Medicare reimbursement cuts and relatively minor compensation...

• Sharing recruits helps rural hospitals find specialists

  Recruiting physicians to rural areas is typically a challenge, but it can be even more difficult...

Issue 6, June 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Survey reveals competitiveness of recruitment

  It wasn't long ago that only rural facilities had serious problems recruiting physicians...

• Oncologists explore new models to prepare for shortage

  Compensation for oncologists has remained relatively flat in recent years, primarily because of...

• Integrating comp plans key to practice merger success

  Medical practice mergers are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways for physicians to band...

Issue 5, May 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Practices prepare for more part-time physicians

  The number of physicians practicing part-time is increasing, presenting new challenges to practices...

• OB/GYNs struggle with malpractice insurance costs

  Most of the challenges facilities face in recruiting and compensating OB/GYN physicians can be...

• Measurement key to pay-for-performance success

  Initial pay-for-performance (P4P) programs attempted to answer big-picture questions about whether...

• Combine local, national data when developing comp plan

  Finding relevant data in compensation surveys can require filtering out a lot of unnecessary data...

Issue 4, April 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Scrutinize FMV in a performance-based environment

  As the healthcare industry continues to embrace performance-based business models, providers are...

• Physicians' reasons for relocating: 1987 and today

  In 1987, a gallon of gasoline was less than $1, telephone calls were made over landlines, and when...

• Tension with hospitals doesn't slow radiology comp climb

  Despite turfs wars, manpower shortages, and recent reimbursement, radiology has been and continues...

• Merge recruitment, retention efforts to keep top physicians

  Many of the same market forces that have made recruitment more difficult and a higher priority...

Issue 3, March 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Rural facilities struggle to recruit female physicians

  ecruiting physicians to rural facilities is typically a challenge, but it can be even more...

• Need for critical care boosts pulmonary medicine comp

  Pulmonary medicine isn't considered one of the best-paying specialties, but industry surveys...

• Address the four pillars of hospitalist career satisfaction

  Consider the ways hospitalists differ from other physicians-their work schedules, compensation...

Issue 2, February 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Private practices catch up to hospital-owned starting salaries

  Compensation trends that have for a long time distinguished between hospital- and physician-owned...

• General surgery comp lags behind that of subspecialists

  Compensation data for general surgery paint two pictures, depending on which general surgeons...

• Pay physicians for call with nonqualified deferred compensation

  When medical staff physicians at Winchester (VA) Medical Center grew unhappy with call volume and...

• Offer compensation to encourage medical staff leadership

  In recent years, finding medical staff members to assume leadership positions has become an...

Issue 1, January 1, 2008 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Comp rises as physician executive market matures

  When Ed Millermaier, MD, MBA, began practicing as an internist, he never imagined he'd one day be...

• Dermatology compensation increases more than skin deep

  From a physician's perspective, dermatology is the specialty that has it all-reasonable practice...

• Calculate break-even point to choose in-house or external recruiter

  Forget signing bonuses and other up-front salary incentives-recruiting a physician becomes costly...

• Western groups continue to outperform the rest of United States

  With physician groups under tremendous pressure to deliver high-quality patient care in an...