ACMPE Article Assessment - Carving out space between employed and independent: Professional service agreements in today’s physician market

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* 1. What is the primary driver forcing independent physician practices to align or sell to large healthcare entities?

Recruitment challenges

Higher compensation

Financial instability

All of the above

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* 2. According to the Physician Advocacy Institute study, ______ of physicians are employed by hospitals, health systems or corporate entities.

27%

48%

63%

74%

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* 3. Procedural heavy specialists are seeing the most benefit from changes to the Medicare Fee Schedule (MPFS) conversion factor wRVU values.

True

False

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* 4. All the following PSA structures allow physicians to test the waters of alignment with a health system except?

Call pay arrangement

Practice acquisition

Service line medical directorship

Practice management arrangement

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* 5. In building out remuneration the PSA is typically based on wRVU/productivity rather than collections.

True

False

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* 6. The following PSA arrangement is more attractive to medical groups who want to continue functioning as they have been while getting the benefits of partnering with a health system.

Traditional PSA

Global PSA

Practice management arrangement

Carve Out PSA