Launching Financial Incentives for Physician Groups to Improve Equity of Care by Patient Race and Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT: Policy Points What are the facilitators and barriers of physician group participation in a performance-based financial incentive program aimed at improving equity of care by patient race and ethnicity? Launching financial incentives to improve racial equity has required extensive organizational change management for participating physician groups, including major investments to improve quality management systems. Carefully designing financial incentives to encourage equity improvement while managing unintended consequences, and considering physician groups' populations served, baseline maturity of quality management systems, and efforts to assess and address patients' social risk factors have been central to prepare physician groups for financial incentives to improve equity of care. Given

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11654755 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature