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Managed Care September 2003	Primary care pay falls again Primary care physicians' compensation continues to decline, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2003 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity survey.
Managed Care December 2001	Specialist compensation outpaces primary care Specialists' compensation has risen steadily in recent years, according to the Medical Group Management Association...
Managed Care April 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Congressional Anti-Kickback Battle Hinges on HCFA's Regulatory Stance In an election year, the political hot buttons -- the Patients Bill of Rights and a Medicare prescription benefit, and maybe the issue of medical errors -- are sure to get a lot more attention than such mundane things as laws that would address potential kickbacks....
Managed Care March 2001 Mark D. Abruzzo	'Final' Stark Regulations Still a Work in Progress The Stark Law generally prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain designated health services to entities with which the physician (or immediate family members) has a financial relationship...
Managed Care October 2003	Physician compensation trend differs depending on whom you ask Primary care physicians experienced a 2.8 percent median increase in compensation last year, and specialists in general reported a 4.3 percent median increase, although some notable medical specialties experienced decreases in compensation.
Managed Care February 2004	Primary care salaries hold steady Primary care salaries hold steady while specialists salaries soar.
Managed Care January 2008	Emerging Role for New Niche Specialists New physician specialists like laborists, surgicalists, and nocturnists are beginning to fill specific niches in the provider market.
Managed Care September 2007	Primary Care Gains Over 3 Years Over the three years ending in 2006, primary care specialties showed respectable gains in compensation.
Managed Care October 2005	Salary Slowdown Reported for Specialists Compensation growth for specialists fell behind that of primary care physicians in 2004 for the first time in several years, according to a survey.
Managed Care September 2002	Medicare holds down physician pay Compensation increased at a comparatively small rate from 2000 to 2001 for both primary care physicians and specialists, according to the Medical Group Management Association.
Managed Care February 2007	Quality is Important, But Productivity Rules Despite a rise in the use of quality incentives to determine physician compensation, productivity remains the predominant determinant.
Managed Care January 2004	Opportunities abound for physician executives Physician executives who are considering leaving management positions in managed care organizations should look to greener pastures at practice management companies, medical/health care associations, health system corporate offices, and foundations.
Managed Care February 2008	Women Increasingly Fill Medical Director Role Women hold a 30 percent greater share of physician executive jobs than they did 10 years ago.
Managed Care August 2004	Medicaid Fees Rise, But Still Below Medicare A recent study reports that 30 states raised their Medicaid fees at or above the rate of inflation, including 10 that raised physician fees by more than 35%.
Managed Care December 2005	Health Plan Medical Directors Doing Well Medical directors at health plans saw a 7.2% rise in mean direct compensation from 2003 to 2005.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws.
Managed Care July 2006	Physicians' Real Income Continues to Fall Adjusted for inflation, physicians' net income from the practice of medicine declined 7% between 1995 and 2003, according to a national study.
Managed Care January 2007	Change From Salary to Relative Value Units Leads to Higher Income for Physicians A Minnesota medical group that contracted with HealthPartners was able to improve cost of care, physician compensation, and patient access without harming patient satisfaction when the group converted from a salary payment system for physicians to one solely dependent on physician productivity.
Managed Care June 2002	Physician incomes rise in academia Compensation continues to increase for most physician categories in academic medical settings, according to a survey by the Medical Group Management Association.
Managed Care May 2005	New Model, More Money for Family Docs A new practice-level financial model described in the report "Future of Family Medicine" estimates that a five-physician practice could see a 26 percent increase in compensation if it implemented this model and continued to use the current fee-for-service system of payment.
Managed Care May 2006	Physician Disclosure Strengthens Patients' Trust Patients who received a disclosure felt more competent to judge the effect of their physician's compensation on their health care, and nearly a quarter of patients who remembered receiving a disclosure reported that it had increased their trust in their primary care physician.
Managed Care November 2002	Combating the coming physician shortage 38 percent of the nation's 740,000 physicians are 50 or older -- that's one of the reasons that health care faces a coming shortage of doctors. Martin/Fletcher estimates that 250,000 will be needed over the next 10 years to replace those lost to retirement and other reasons.
Managed Care August 2001	GAO: Consultants Point Docs Toward Federal Law Violations The General Accounting Office has found that some health care consultants have been advising physicians to do things that conflict with federal laws and that may be unethical...
Managed Care February 2001	Some primary care salary increases lag behind other health care professionals Depending on the flavor of primary care a physician practices, cumulative pay increases over the last five years have either been very good, in comparison to other health care professionals -- or very poor...
Managed Care October 2002	For locum tenens physicians, money's not everything -- but it's not bad Primary care physicians and internists who have tried "temping" have found something to their liking: fewer hassles, decent money, and enough perks to make it economically feasible.
Managed Care April 2004	Pharmacy Directors See Healthy Increase in Pay in 2003 Salaries of pharmacy directors in 2003 were up substantially from 2002.
Managed Care March 2001	Physician income trends vary by specialty In tracking the salaries of primary care physicians and specialists over a decade, the Medical Group Management Association has documented similarities and differences in trends based on specialty...
Managed Care July 2001 John Otrompke	Stark Allows Federal Regulators To Review Claims Records Fully HMO executives, as well as the providers and physicians who contract with them, should have by now felt the changes in their daily work lives resulting from the government's increased scrutiny of health plans' operations under the fraud-and-abuse compliance laws...
Managed Care December 2007 John Carroll	How Doctors Are Paid Now, And Why It Has to Change Everyone knows about the perverse incentive of fee-for-service medicine, but that hasn't had much effect on its use.
Managed Care April 2001	Compensation, patient-care time vary widely by practice size Self-employed physicians who practice with one or more other doctors tend to spend more time in patient-care activities than solo practitioners -- and their compensation reflects that...
Managed Care March 2006	Standard Measures In Works For P4P Push Uncle Sam has decided to get behind the pay-for-performance effort in a big way, something some physician associations are less than thrilled about.
Managed Care July 2007	Managed Care Outlook The future holds too few docs.
Managed Care March 2006 Taylor & Eck	It's Time for CMS to Release Physician Medicare Claim Information The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services is a rich source of price and quality data. Isn't it about time it shared that data?
Managed Care July 2000	Salaries Within MCOs: Up, Except for Primary Care Warren Surveys' Spring 2000 Salary Survey concludes that the rise in salaries indicates that health plans are "keeping compensation at market levels, and understand that in a tight labor market a highly trained employee with managed care experience is a valuable resource."
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2006	IT Is in The Money IT salaries are projected to increase an average of 3 percent in 2006, according to an annual salary guide.
Managed Care September 2004	Four Physician Specialties Report Double-Digit Gains Cardiologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, and pathologists in particular, enjoyed the largest increases in compensation in 2003.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
Managed Care July 2001 Harry L. Leider	HMOs Need To Share Gains of DM Programs Physicians are more likely to buy in if they see better outcomes -- and financial rewards that go with them...
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Devon Rackle	Home Health Investors, Be Warned Trends in compensation, proposed compensation reductions, and excessive industry margins spell trouble for the home health provider sector.
Managed Care May 2001	Demand's cool for primary care physicians Although they're not quite an endangered species, primary care physicians aren't exactly in high demand these days, either. That's been the experience of a national physician search and recruitment firm...
Managed Care January 2005	Private Practice Physicians Find Dual Role Challenging When it comes to balancing the role of business owner and practicing physician, many private practice doctors are having a tough time of it.
Managed Care March 2006	Compensation Monitor Higher salaries go to clinical executives who hold business degrees.
Managed Care November 2004	Abandonment of Capitation May Inflate MCO's Costs Medical groups and IPAs in strong managed care markets are significantly less likely to use fee-for-service methods to pay their physician members than are organizations in markets with less managed care presence.
Managed Care August 2002	Life may be better without a white coat Are clinical duties holding you back from a bigger paycheck? If you're a group practice medical director, maybe so.
Managed Care June 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	What the Primary Care Physician Shortage Means for Health Plans Insurers fear rising costs and poorer outcomes if members are less able to get appointments with family physicians and general internists.
American Family Physician December 15, 2006 Liz Smith	Newsletter Medicare Beneficiaries Advised to Review Drug Plan Changes for 2007... AAFP Federal Advocacy Efforts Will Focus on Physician Payment Reform... Pay-for-Performance Incentives Used by One Half of Surveyed HMOs... etc.
Managed Care April 2006	Pay-for-Performance Champions Excited by California Program's Success A quality incentive program in California is yielding results that could be replicated in Medicare and other pay-for-performance (P4P) programs nationwide according to a new report.
Managed Care July 2007	AMA: Patients Will Feel Cuts in Medicare Next year's proposed 10 percent cut in Medicare payments is serving as a rallying point for members of the American Medical Association, which says the cuts will make it difficult for physicians to accept new Medicare patients.
Managed Care October 2000	How you fare under capitation Warren Surveys talked to about 50 HMOs and community based health plans in 1999 to tally what they were paying physicians in capitation and risk-arrangement contracts...
Managed Care September 2004 Tony Berberabe	Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice.