What to Do When You Need to Double Check wRVUs
Darcy Devine • March 12, 2018
Work RVUs (wRVUs) are commonly used to measure physician productivity. Under many physician compensation plans, physicians are paid a specific dollar amount for each wRVU generated. Since a significant amount of money may be tied to wRVUs – it is important that employers calculate them correctly and have confidence that wRVU totals accurately reflect the amount of work done by their physicians.
We recommend periodically testing wRVU inputs and related data to help make sure physicians are paid appropriately. See the graphic for a summary of tests/analyses that can be done to assess whether the wRVU calculations being used to compensate physicians at your organization are appropriate.
We ranked the 30 largest healthcare services and information technology deals of 2018, according to our database, by valuation multiple. The lowest reported price to EBITDA multiples (10x or lower, sorted alphabetically) are listed below.
We ranked the 30 largest healthcare services and information technology deals of 2018, according to our database, by valuation multiple.
We ranked the 30 largest healthcare services and information technology deals of 2018, according to our database, by valuation multiple. The highest reported price to EBITDA multiples (15x or higher, sorted alphabetically) were as follows:
Healthcare services organizations rely on a variety of intangible assets to create business value, including patient and customer relationships, medical records, trade names, assembled workforce, licenses and certifications, non-compete clauses, proprietary technology, software, and others.
For those of you who’ve been involved in a transaction where the only asset transferred is a certificate of need, you’ve probably found that market data is scarce for CON-only deals.
CON Laws, Scope of Practice Restrictions, and Provider Non-Compete Clauses Targeted in New Trump Adm
On Monday, December 3, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – in collaboration with the Departments of the Treasury and Labor, the Federal Trade Commission, and several offices within the White House – released a report detailing recommendations for improving choice and competition in the healthcare industry.
One of the questions we get asked a lot is how valuations have changed over time.
One of the many benefits of tracking healthcare transactions closely and maintaining a very large database of deals where we can get reliable price to EBITDA and revenue multiples is that it provides insight into profit margins for segments where other financial benchmarking information is sparse.
The most important component of a valuation of an accountable care organization (or other multi-provider network that relies on risk-based shared savings models) is the revenue forecast, which involves “probability-adjusting” future shared savings payments in some manner.
CMS' offers a helpful online tool that shows provider market saturation levels at the national-, state-, and county-levels for the following health services:
