Sentences with phrase «on alternative billing methods»

In fact, what we call «pricing» today is an evolution that stretches back nearly 30 years, when the American Bar Association formed a Task Force on Alternative Billing Methods in 1987.

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Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

Consequently, alternative methods of billing must focus on the outcome of the work provided by lawyers, rather than the volume of time which has been spent achieving this outcome.

Yes, alternative billing methods exist, and some firms use them, but most first still focus on time billing for many areas.

Henry apparently finds that option too radical, and therefore unrealistic (to be sure, while it would be ideal for firms to develop alternative methods of charging for their services that eliminate the billable hour, the fact remains that law is a business and alternative methods of billing have to make economic sense given the nature of practice areas such as litigation where one's adversary has the power to determine how much time one will have to spend on a case).