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Managed Care May 2004	Physician Pay Remains Flat, But Bonuses Rise The increased use of bonuses represents the physician market getting more competitive.
Managed Care February 2004	Primary care salaries hold steady Primary care salaries hold steady while specialists salaries soar.
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...
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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 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 July 2007	Managed Care Outlook The future holds too few docs.
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 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 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 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 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 July 2005	Economically, country mouse does better Although lower income in rural areas is often cited as an obstacle to recruitment of physicians, one study suggests rural and urban areas do not differ significantly - at least, in terms of income.
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 May 2007	Compensation Monitor Most docs break bread with pharma.
AskMen.com April 15, 2001 Joshua Levine	Choosing The Right Doctor Choosing a doctor is one of the most important decisions you can make. It's probably best made when you are healthy and have some time to think about a number of possibilities. If you don't have a doctor or are thinking about changing doctors, now may be the best time to look...
Managed Care July 2000	Are Gatekeepers Failing To Control Specialty Costs? The importance of a gatekeeper in keeping costs down has been challenged again -- this time in a study that compares physician utilization for HMOs and point-of-service plans.
Managed Care January 2006	Compensation Monitor A recent poll reveals that doctors distrust pay for performance programs.
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.
Managed Care April 2000	With AMAP Gone, Quality Judgments In Hands of Others When the American Medical Association shut down its physician accreditation program, AMAP, last month, several physician leaders expressed concern that the profession had lost its best chance to demonstrate efficient, high-quality care....
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2006 Anne Goodrich	Marketing to Professionals: Doctors Get Jump on Continuing Education Doctors turn to multiple CME channels for more than just credits.
Managed Care August 2001	In Calif., Bonuses Based on Quality, Not Cost Savings Blue Cross of California has decided to move away from the traditional managed care incentive of rewarding physicians for controlling medical costs, and instead will implement a program in which physicians receive bonuses for quality of care and patient satisfaction...
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 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 March 2005	Family practice base salary continues to improve Base salaries of family practice physicians increase.
Managed Care August 2000	Internet revolution not yet impressing most physicians For all the potential of the Internet to erase old physician doubts about integrating information technology into everyday practice, scant few doctors have embraced it.
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 September 2004 Michael D. Cabana et al.	Improving Physician Attendance At Educational Seminars Sponsored By Managed Care Organizations Although interactive educational seminars that target physicians require a large investment of resources, they can be cost-effective if medical care is improved as a result.
Managed Care September 2002	Physician prescribing rates climb One reason that spending on medications has increased during the last 15 years is that physicians are turning to pharmaceuticals to help patients battle comorbidities, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Managed Care July 2003 Arthur Lazarus	Physician Executives Don't Have To Go It Alone Mentors and support groups can help you avoid being fired. And if the worst does happen, they can facilitate your comeback.
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 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.
AskMen.com Tara Weiss	Reasons Not To Become A Doctor There were once many rewards to being in the medical profession. For decades, doctors earned hefty paychecks, had autonomy and respect. Those benefits are fading, and as a result, so is the number of doctors.
Managed Care January 2002 Ed Rabinowitz	When Physicians' Skills Fail, Collaboration Beats Punishment New programs hold promise for rehabilitating sound physicians who have, for any number of reasons, lost some of the skills they started with...
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 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...
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 April 2000 Karen L. Trespacz, J.D.	League of Their Own: What Makes a Winning IPA? In a familiar cartoon, a professor writes long, learned equations on a blackboard. To connect the profundities on either end, he writes in the middle, "Then a miracle occurs." IPAs, done well, are the miracles that connect the ends of health care.
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...
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2006 Sharyn Lee	Invisible Prescribers: What You Do and Don't Know About NPs and PAs How many prescriptions are written each year by nurse practitioners and physician assistants? Pharmaceutical companies not only fail to market to this sector, they neglect to invite nurse practitioners and physician assistants to meetings or to include them in plans for continuing medical education.
American Family Physician August 15, 2000 James Hallenbeck	Curbside Consultation When should a physician disclose personal information to a patient, and what do we do when a particular case touches on our own suffering? At a deeper level, how do we deal with our own mortality in caring for the seriously ill and dying?
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Managed Care March 2006	Compensation Monitor Higher salaries go to clinical executives who hold business degrees.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2007 Jeffrey Zornitsky	Sales Management: Get Committed By better managing relationships with physicians, pharma companies can develop a base of dedicated prescribers.
Managed Care June 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Re-Emergence of the Primary Care Physician A new model of care developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians places primary care physicians back at the center of care delivery.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Mike Iafolla & Steve Greco	Under the Influence The number of influences that affect physicians' prescribing has increased and rep saturation has reached the tipping point, resulting in "customer fatigue." Companies must now take into account a plethora of influences when planning their sales and marketing efforts.
Managed Care November 2003 Patrick Mullen	Physician Executives Need Not Fly Blind Kathleen Montgomery is in the forefront of efforts to define the unique domain of doctors who become managers. One thing she knows for sure: Trustworthiness is everything.
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