Specialized Expertise
Independent Compensation Advisory
Acuity provides specialized physician compensation expertise without requiring your practice to build that capability in-house. We provide independent analysis, financial modeling, plan design, and ongoing advisory support for physician-owned practices seeking clarity, consistency, and long-term sustainability.
When did you last review your compensation formula?
Practices change. Compensation formulas often do not. As physicians join or leave, collections shift, service lines expand, staffing costs rise, and utilization changes, a formula that once worked can begin producing results that no longer reflect the practice's financial reality.
Acuity helps practices identify whether their current methodology is working as intended — and model what happens before they make changes.
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Core Services
01
Compensation Plan Assessment
Review the mechanics of your existing physician compensation methodology to identify unclear assumptions, misaligned incentives, financial risks, and areas that warrant refinement.
02
Compensation Modeling
Model compensation under different productivity, collections, staffing, and overhead assumptions so leadership can understand the financial effect of potential changes before implementation.
03
Plan Design & Redesign
Build or redesign a physician compensation methodology around your ownership structure, revenue model, productivity measures, overhead approach, and financial goals.
04
Ongoing Compensation Administration
Provide recurring compensation calculations, reconciliations, reporting, and independent support so your practice can administer its plan consistently over time.
NEW OR NEWLY INDEPENDENT PRACTICES
Start with a compensation model built for your practice.
Do not wait until compensation becomes a point of disagreement to decide how physicians will be paid. Acuity helps physician owners establish a methodology early — before growth, staffing changes, and ownership decisions make an informal approach difficult to unwind. We design models around how the practice generates revenue, shares costs, measures physician contribution, and plans for growth.
ESTABLISHED PRACTICES
Make sure your formula still fits the practice you have today.
Your practice may look very different from when its compensation methodology was created. New physicians, new locations, changing payer mix, increased overhead, ancillary services, APP integration, and shifting productivity can all affect whether the original formula still produces the intended result. Acuity evaluates the financial mechanics of your current methodology, models alternative approaches, and helps leadership determine whether the plan remains sustainable and aligned.
Experience Behind the Analysis
13+ Years
in specialty medical group finance
120+
physicians supported across multiple specialties
30+
APPs incorporated into practice financial structures
$150M+
in physician practice collections analyzed, reported on, or overseen
Experience includes physician compensation calculations, wRVU- and collections-based methodologies, direct-expense and overhead allocation, APP economics, benchmarking, financial modeling, pro formas, budgeting, and physician-practice financial reporting.
Illustrative Engagement
A multi-physician practice had expanded its provider team and added APP support, but its compensation model still reflected the practice’s earlier structure. Acuity reviewed the allocation methodology, modeled alternative approaches using productivity, collections, and expense assumptions, and provided a clear analysis for physician leadership to use in deciding whether and how to update the plan.
The Compensation Process
01
Understand
We learn how your practice operates today: its ownership structure, service lines, revenue sources, staffing model, overhead, productivity measures, and current compensation approach.
02
Analyze
We assess the financial mechanics behind the current methodology, including productivity, collections, physician utilization, direct expenses, and overhead allocation.
03
Model
We test potential compensation scenarios so decision-makers can see how changes may affect physician pay, practice profitability, and long-term sustainability.
04
Implement & Support
We help finalize a clear methodology and can provide ongoing calculations, reconciliations, reporting, and advisory support as the practice evolves.
Led by Christina
CPA | MGMA Physician Compensation Planning Certificate | CMA | Enrolled Agent
With more than 13 years of experience in physician-group finance, Christina helps physician-owned practices translate complex financial information into compensation decisions that are clear, practical, and supportable.
Her experience comes from more than a decade spent inside physician-owned, multi-specialty medical group finance, building and administering compensation structures for well over 120 physicians and 30+ advanced practice providers across a wide range of specialties. That work spans wRVU and collections-based methodologies, overhead allocation, APP economics, financial modeling, budgeting, and physician-practice financial reporting.
Acuity brings that same operational experience to independent practices as an outside resource — providing the specialized physician compensation expertise most groups can't justify building in-house.
Acuity Physician Compensation is operated by DKC3 Financial Services, LLC.