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Tags: HEALTH facilities; PHYSICIANS -- Salaries, etc.; MEDICAL policy; COLLECTIVE bargaining
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- Doctors' pay. // British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition);5/23/1981, Vol. 282 Issue 6277, p1651
Discusses issues related to doctors' salaries in Great Britain. Function of the Pilkington Royal Commission; Interference from the government; Emphasis on the increasing workload of doctors.
- MASS. DOCTORS AGREE TO GLOBAL PAYMENT. // Medical Economics;1/10/2011, Vol. 88 Issue 1, p15
The article reports on the agreement between an independent physician organization in Massachusetts representing 1,800 physicians and Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts Inc., in which physicians will be paid on a modified global payment model, a payment system that encourages...
- Study shows dramatic rise in use of bonuses to lure doctors. Burda, David // Modern Healthcare;2/13/95, Vol. 25 Issue 7, p44
Cites a report by benefits consulting firm William M. Mercer on the increased number of healthcare facilities offering signing bonuses to attract physicians in the United States during 1994. Group practices and HMOs as more likely than hospitals to use signing bonuses; Average signing bonus...
- Easing the transition to an RBRVS-based physician compensation system. LOUISELLE, PAUL P. // hfm (Healthcare Financial Management);Nov98, Vol. 52 Issue 11, p67
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- Physicians lobby to stop more Medicare payment cuts. // Family Practice Management;Jul/Aug2003, Vol. 10 Issue 7, p31
Reports on the lobbying efforts of health care organizations to stop Medicare payment cuts in the U.S. Rate of Medicare payments to physicians; Legislative debates on Medicare reform bills; Amendment to the Medicare reimbursement formula.
- Revising Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule � Much Activity, Little Change. Ginsburg, Paul B.; Berenson, Robert A. // New England Journal of Medicine;3/22/2007, Vol. 356 Issue 12, p1201
The authors suggest that the resource-based relative value scale which is used to determine Medicare's payment rates for U.S. physicians requires greater attention to ensure that its objectives are achieved. The authors discuss the history and development of the fee schedule and adjustments and...
- After the fall. Scott, Lisa // Modern Physician;May2000, Vol. 4 Issue 5, p66
Deals with the financial problems of physicians and physician groups in California. Actions taken by the California Medical Association to help the physicians; Bankruptcy of California physician groups; Status of physician incomes; Lessons of the California experience for healthcare organizations.
- Create a prevalence formula that works. // GP: General Practitioner;10/13/2006, p23
This article focuses on the effect of extreme disease prevalences on the weighting of quality pay of general practices in Great Britain. No one has predicted that practices with unusual patient populations could have adverse effects on the prevalence weighting applied to the quality framework....
