When hospitals are faced with requests from physicians to be paid for ED call coverage, it is important that they approach the issue in a rational and deliberate manner. If they don’t, chaos can ensue. Merely agreeing to pay doctors from one specialty to keep them happy will lead to several more demanding as good or a better deal. And sitting all the specialists down at the table to “work things out” can result in a Night of the Long Scalpels with different specialties fighting in what they perceive to be a zero-sum game.
Tune into our special podcast where HortySpringer partners Henry Casale and Dan Mulholland talk to Max Hockenberry from the MaxWorth Consulting Group https://maxworthconsulting.com/about/max-hockenberry about a better way to approach and structure ED call payments using a Call Pay Committee and deferred compensation, which physicians and hospitals who have implemented it have called “The Call Pay Solution.”
