Contract Negotiation

The following advice was provided to the question of whether a practice should use RVU’s as a basis for payment to a new doctor:

RVUs correlate to CPT Codes, which correlate to income.

RVUs are good for physiatry employees whose PM&R practice has low-reimbursing insurance carriers, like Medicaid. In this case, the lack of reimbursement will not unfairly penalize the physical medicine and rehabilitation employee who is working hard, but does not receive correspondingly high reimbursement. In other words, their RVUs will be high, but their reimbursement will [ . . . ]

Contract negotiation may not be easy.   Hopefully, this information will help you during the contract negotiation process.  What I plan to cover will be a little about basic negotiation information and then information pertinent to the items of a doctor contract that may be negotiable such as the compensation, responsibilities and benefits.

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Yes, most physiatry employers will negotiate.  That’s the obvious answer; everything is negotiable!  Some items you can negotiate are the start date, some aspects of the work schedule and fringe benefits.

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PHYSIATRY CONTRACT NEGOTIATION

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