title: Physician financial incentives: use of quality incentives inches up, but productivity still dominates.
abstract: The proportion of physicians in group practice whose compensation is based in part on quality measures increased from 17.6 percent in 2000-01 to 20.2 percent in 2004-05, according to a new national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Despite this small but statistically significant increase, quality-related physician compensation is much less common than financial incentives tied to physicians' individual productivity, which has consistently affected 70 percent of physicians in non-solo practice since 1996-97. Examining the trend in quality-related physician compensation since 1996-97 suggests that quality incentives are most prevalent among primary care physicians and in large practices that receive a substantial share of revenue from capitated payments, or fixed per patient, per month payments.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reschovsky
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hadley
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D004526:Efficiency; D005544:Forecasting; D006123:Group Practice; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D010816:Physician Incentive Plans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States