Chris Marrs brings 12 years of specialized experience in valuation and strategic consulting for contractual service arrangements within the Healthcare industry.
With a deep focus on both employed and independent physician and advanced practice provider (APP) arrangements, Chris has worked extensively across a range of services, including compensation design, provider strategy, clinical services, call coverage, administrative and executive services, hospital coverage and value-based initiatives. His national experience spans for-profit, not-for-profit, rural and academic healthcare systems, where he has developed comprehensive, performance-oriented compensation solutions that align with organizational goals.
Chris is dedicated to helping health systems craft efficient, sustainable strategies that drive provider compensation while ensuring alignment with both operational and strategic objectives.
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In his free time, Chris enjoys sailing, playing tennis and pickleball, is an avid reader and has a passion for all things Disney.
Maintaining fair market value (“FMV”) of physician compensation is a crucial aspect of healthcare compliance, and call compensation is a key component with unique complexities. Both the Physician Self-Referral Law (“PSL”)—commonly referred to as “Stark Law” and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) are typically relevant for call coverage arrangements. Over the last two decades, call compensation…
Ensuring fair market value (“FMV”) in physician compensation is vital to healthcare compliance, especially physician administrative compensation, which is replete with complexities. Administrative services arrangements, most frequently used for medical directorship services, often intersect with the Physician Self-Referral Law (“PSL”), commonly known as Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”). Separate medical director compensation, as…
Maintaining fair market value (“FMV”) of physician compensation is a crucial aspect of healthcare compliance, reducing the risk that improper payments are not used to induce the referral of Medicare or Medicaid patients. As more physicians become employed and integrated into health systems, financial relationships (and FMV concerns) between physicians have risen. As a result,…