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Doctors' Employment Contracts Due For Renewal-and Revamp
Physician employment contracts with hospitals that were signed in the early days of healthcare reform are coming up for renewal Experts say the expectation of payment reform requires that these new deals include the flexibility to adapt to expected and unforseeable changes.
Physician employment contracts with hospitals that were signed in the early days of healthcare reform are coming up for renewal.
Experts say the expectation of payment reform requires that these new deals include the flexibility to adapt to expected and unforseeable changes.
“We're seeing a fair amount of handwringing in terms of these deals,” said Max Reiboldt, president and CEO of the Coker Group, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based healthcare consultant. “We are changing the paradigm of how doctors are being paid. It's not 100% (relative value unit) productivity anymore.”
That said, the predominant payment system has not changed yet and probably won't before contracts expire. So Reiboldt said many new employment contracts are including automatic renegotiation triggers if, for example, 20% of a hospital system's reimbursement starts to involve pay-for-value metrics.
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Source: Modern Healthcare
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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