By PACC Staff Writer Most Physician Assistants will be paid on a salary basis. Usually part-time of per diem PA’s will be paid on an hourly basis. Salary Employee • Not required to sign a timesheet • Paid not on hours worked, but on overall salary • May work more than a 40 hour week…
Published by Sanna Coates in Medical Coding Most of us come in contact with medical coding at some point in our lives – whether it is as physicians, medical billers, or patients. When we do, it can be helpful to know the specific purpose of each different coding system. Let’s take a look at some…
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification Standard. The NPI is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. Covered health care providers and all health plans and health care clearinghouses must use the NPIs in the administrative and financial transactions adopted under HIPAA. The…
By Tricia Marriott Are you considering a production-based compensation package? Do you have full access to your production data? Unless you can thoroughly ascertain that all of your work is attributed to you, is appropriately valued and is incorporated into the data used to calculate your productivity, you may sell yourself short. Proceed with caution.…
By Tricia Marriott Global Visits: Work that must be done and would otherwise have to be handled by a physician if the practice did not employ Physician Assistants. The problem with global visits for the PA: Unfortunately, global visits have no monetary value. By performing the global work, the pa enables a physician to schedule…
A competitive and attractive compensation plan acknowledges the professional value of your expertise and your contribution to the practice. A fair compensation plan has several key features: ■■ It is part of a written and mutually agreed-to employment contract ■■ It has a market-competitive base salary guarantee ■■ It describes the expectations for performance and…