Patients can't compare prices, can't read their bills and can't take their records with them. An interventional radiologist proposes price-tagged orders, shared savings accounts and portable patient records.
|Articles|June 19, 2009
Q&A: How to pay an employed physician
Paying based strictly on RVUs often results in a physician who is far more concerned about production than about quality or effectiveness of patient care.
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Q: Is it better to pay an employed physician by relative value units or a base salary? I'm concerned that paying based on RVUs would motivate the physician to just be a productivity generator. On the other hand, total expenditures including benefits for the first-year contract could easily exceed $200,000. What do you recommend?
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