BACKGROUND Curbside consultations are common in clinical practice. The complexity, relative value, and revenue loss associated with curbside consultations are not well defined. METHODS Curbside consultations performed during a 1-year period were studied. Each curbside consultation was assigned a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code on the basis of the inpatient versus outpatient status o...

Background: There is a high demand for shoulder/elbow experience among hand-fellowship trainees due to theperception that this exposure will improve their professional “marketability” in a subspecialty they perceive as havinghigher compensation.Methods: Using Medicare data, we investigated the most common surgeries from these fields and determinedwhich have the highest c...

A new metric was developed and implemented at the University of Kansas School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, the financial value unit (FVU). This metric analyzes faculty clinical compensation compared with clinical work productivity as a transparent means to decrease the physician compensation variability and compensate faculty equitably for clinical work.The FVU is the ratio of i...

OBJECTIVE Scribes have been used in the emergency department to improve physician productivity and patient interaction. There are no controlled, prospective studies of scribe use in the clinic setting. METHODS A prospective controlled study compared standard visits (20 minute follow-up and 40 minute new patient) to a scribe system (15 minute follow-up and 30 minute new patient) in a cardiolog...

RESULTS: Eighty-five out of the 282 ACAPS members (30.1%) responded to the survey (Table 1). Eighty participants (94%) reported having mainly a reconstructive practice. The majority of survey participants (69.1%) had a base salary plus a bonus based either on collections or WRVUs (Figure 1). Sixty-three percent of plastic surgeons in the survey received less than $50 as a compensation per WRVU....

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) re-shaped patient care in the United States beginning March 2020. While fear of contracting virus was prominent within general population, hospitals also prioritized surges COVID-19 patients by canceling in-person clinic appointments, clinical trials, and elective surgeries. To evaluate state practice during first wave COVID-19, a regional survey conducte...