Provider Compensation

[This is part of a new series on specific issues related to provider compensation, designed to be “short and sweet” and prompt thinking before doing.] When improving productivity will [...]

Health centers need to know that the way they’re spending 3/4 of their budgets is actually being done right. Adopt this set of metrics as a first step to gauging your the effectiveness of [...]

Listen to them. I contemplated just “dropping the mic” and walking away after saying that, but felt compelled to explain. In the last few months we’ve had numerous calls and [...]

The actual productivity of FQHC family practice physicians averages about 14% less than what is planned for on a daily basis, and about 11% below expectations on an annual basis. While [...]

On International Women’s Day, we thought it appropriate to begin the release of information from Merces’ FQHC Provider Productivity and Compensation Survey, the only study of its [...]

While this is known primarily as a human resources focused blog, we frequently reach out into other areas of FQHC operations when they have an impact on what we do.  Right now, the biggest hot [...]

Merces Consulting Group, Inc. (Merces) is conducting a survey of medical, dental and behavioral health provider compensation and productivity in the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) [...]

Provider compensation will continue to be high on the list of “to dos” for FQHC senior managers in 2015. There is no indication that the shortage of interested providers will be [...]

Years of research continues to support the proposition that regardless of what some may argue is “essential” or “wide-spread,” incentives and bonuses make up a very small [...]

Now that the holidays have passed, and with the Super Bowl a couple weeks away, it is time to think about what your health center will want to accomplish in the area of employee compensation in [...]