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If profit is the sweet filing in the compensation pie, then overhead is the crust--you can’t have a pie without it, but slicing through it is crumby. There are as many ways to divide overhead as there are hybrid physician compensation plans. Jill Costello, MBA, CPC, senior consultant for the Georgia-based healthcare consulting firm The Coker Group, offers guidelines on how to slice this portion of the pie: