title: How neurologists are paid: Part 3: Hospital support, Veterans Administration, and neurohospitalists.
abstract: Part 1 of this series focused on factors influencing payment for patient care services and Part 2 described compensation plans for neurologists in private practice and in academic medicine. In Part 3, we review how hospital salary support and appointments to Veterans Administration hospitals contribute to the salary structure of neurologists. We also discuss neurohospitalist care and ways neurologists can potentially increase compensation from on-call pay, telemedicine, and the use of new transitional care and complex chronic care codes. We conclude with an emphasis on the important role of neurologists as team players in a health care system that will rely on efficient coordination of care among many health care workers.
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Donofrio
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Gregory L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Barkley
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Bruce H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Esper
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Soronson
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Buchhalter
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (PDD), Nashville, TN; Henry Ford Hospital (GLB), Detroit, MI; Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron (BHC), OH; Texas Neurology (DAE), Dallas; Emory University (GJE), Atlanta, GA; University of Maryland (BS), School of Medicine, Baltimore; University of Calgary (JRB), Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada; and American Academy of Neurology (AB), Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Becker