Here are 12 statistics about medical directors from Integrated Health Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey. The survey collected data from 160 organizations, 2,600 individual medical directors and 66 different medical director positions.
Contract specifications
Here are the contract specifications for medical directors and the percentages of organizations that included them in their contracts.
3. Position qualifications
4. Job duties and responsibilities
5. Number of hours required
6. If independent contractor or employee
7. Requirement for physicians to log their time
8. If logs are required, the organization audits time logs
9. An incentive provision linked to performance
10. Annual review of performance
11. Annual review of documentation of time
12. Position is benefit-eligible (in addition to pay)
For more information on the survey or to order a copy of the survey, click here (note: this link is no longer available).
Source: Integrated Healthcare Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey.
Integrated Healthcare Strategies offers comprehensive human resource consulting services to the healthcare industry. These services include physician services, executive total compensation, executive search, governance and leadership consulting and human capital management consulting services. For more information or to learn more about their surveys, please contact Aurora Young, consultant, at Integrated Healthcare Strategies at (800) 327-9335 or e-mail aurora.young@ihstrategies.com.
Contract requirements
1. Of the 160 organizations surveyed, 85.2 percent said they do have contracts with all of their medical directors, and 14.8 percent did not require contracts of all medical directors.
2. Here are the average contract lengths of the organizations that required contracts of all medical directors (note: a single organization could have more than one response):
- 1 year — 57.1 percent
- 2 years — 35.2 percent
- 3 years or more — 42.9 percent
Contract specifications
Here are the contract specifications for medical directors and the percentages of organizations that included them in their contracts.
3. Position qualifications
- Yes — 88.8 percent
- No — 11.2 percent
4. Job duties and responsibilities
- Yes — 98.0 percent
- No — 2.0 percent
5. Number of hours required
- Yes — 91.6 percent
- No — 8.4 percent
6. If independent contractor or employee
- Yes — 95.9 percent
- No — 4.1 percent
7. Requirement for physicians to log their time
- Yes — 77.3 percent
- No — 22.7 percent
8. If logs are required, the organization audits time logs
- Yes — 73.3 percent
- No — 26.7 percent
9. An incentive provision linked to performance
- Yes —24.5 percent
- No — 75.5 percent
10. Annual review of performance
- Yes — 67.8 percent
- No — 32.2 percent
11. Annual review of documentation of time
- Yes — 56.1 percent
- No — 43.9 percent
12. Position is benefit-eligible (in addition to pay)
- Yes — 35.6 percent
- No — 64.4 percent
For more information on the survey or to order a copy of the survey, click here (note: this link is no longer available).
Source: Integrated Healthcare Strategies' 2009 Medical Director Survey.
Integrated Healthcare Strategies offers comprehensive human resource consulting services to the healthcare industry. These services include physician services, executive total compensation, executive search, governance and leadership consulting and human capital management consulting services. For more information or to learn more about their surveys, please contact Aurora Young, consultant, at Integrated Healthcare Strategies at (800) 327-9335 or e-mail aurora.young@ihstrategies.com.