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CMS says it also wants to calculate more accurate payment rates for certain services.

Taking less vacation and working while on vacation were associated with higher mean emotional exhaustion and burnout.

Healthcare leaders will confront sustained upward pressure on compensation for these roles moving forward, report finds.

Rural facilities tend to pay physicians more due to the difficulty in recruiting new talent to rural communities.

If 20% of the US population were to become infected with COVID-19, it would result in an average of $163.4 billion in direct medical costs.

Physician compensation rebounded from a stagnant 2017, but the increase in productivity was negligible.

Performance gains are linked to physician compensation based on clinical quality rather than volume.

When Franciscan Health assembled a team of executives and clinicians to assess physician performance, they found big opportunities disguised as problems.

As hospitals and health systems face constant revenue stream pressures, financial managers are leveraging cost containment strategies that lean on population health, supply chain management and salary adjustments as a way trim costs.

To be successful, a hospital must acquire physician practices able to work in a world that is essentially foreign to what they are used to. The 'new normal' is based on value, outcomes and patient satisfaction.