Preventing Readmissions: A Primary Care Strategy
To engage primary care physicians in efforts to reduce readmissions, a hospital should effectively communicate with them, support their educational needs, and seek their input regarding post-acute care provider options.
Clinical Co-Management Arrangements: What Are You Paying For?
Karin Chernoff Kaplan and Rich Chasinoff underscore the importance for a hospital entering a co-management agreement with physicians of clearly defining the services the physicians will provide under the agreement.
Forum Networking Webinar: Developing Effective Physician Compensation Plans
During this Feb. 23, 2017, HFMA Forum webinar, Dan Stech, principal, Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting shared strategies and examples of how hospitals, health systems, and physician groups are encouraging the transition to value-based payment for employed physicians.
Value-Based Compensation for Primary Care: A Success Story
Bon Secours Virginia Medical Group developed a quality-based bonus program to prepare its primary care physicians for valued-based payment models.
Forum Webinar: Developing Meaningful and Actionable Physician Financial Reports
During this Nov. 3, 2016, HFMA Forum webinar, a director of finance shared how his health system developed and implemented a comprehensive framework for meaningful and actionable financial reports to physicians, practice managers, practice service line directors, and health system
CY15 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule Fact Sheet
This document summarizes the revised policies pertaining to payment policies under the Medicare physician fee schedule for calendar year 2015 (CY15).
CY14 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Fact Sheet
This fact sheet sumarrizes the payment changes applicable to physicians under the CY14 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule released by CMS.
Getting Physicians’ Input on Compensation
Physician compensation advisory committees establish principles that help hospitals and their employed medical groups build compensation models.