title: Physician attitudes toward pay-for-quality programs: perspectives from the front line.
abstract: Pay-for-quality (P4Q) initiatives are becoming an increasingly popular mechanism for improving quality performance and reducing health care costs in the United States. Because these programs often target primary care physicians, it is important to understand how these physicians perceive and respond to P4Q to design successful programs going forward. This study reports results of a survey regarding attitudes toward P4Q among physicians participating in such programs in Massachusetts and California. Findings indicate physicians have generally positive attitudes toward the concept of P4Q, but are ambivalent about certain features of these programs as currently designed and implemented.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA. health@bu.edu
authors.forename: Gary J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meterko
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Barbara G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Bokhour
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Sautter
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berlowitz
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002140:California; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000191:economics*