title: Balancing act. A case study of weighing incentives in a physician compensation plan based on collections.
abstract: How one group practice re-evaluated traditional methods for compensating physicians in the face of changing reimbursement for their services, new organizational structures within which doctors practice, pressure to improve patient satisfaction, and increasingly complex regulations.
authors.affiliation: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Health, Pittsburgh, USA. philip.buchwalter@us.cgeyc.com
authors.forename: Philip R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Buchwalter
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D006123:Group Practice / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000706:statistics & numerical data