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Employment arrangements between hospitals and physicians often include productivity-based compensation.  This can be in the form of bonuses or adjustments to salary.  A common measure of productivity is the physician’s work Relative Value Units (“RVUs”).  Such productivity measures are intended to motivate newly-hired physicians and to support the fairness of compensation paid and earned.

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Health care providers in New York that participate in Medicaid may be included in the latest cycle of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Payment Error Rate Measurement Program (“PERM”).  PERM was developed in response to the Improper Payment Information Act, which requires that Federal agencies review programs that are prone to erroneous payments