Global payment contract attitudes and comprehension among internal medicine physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Global payment contracts (GPCs) are increasingly common agreements between insurance payers and healthcare providers that incorporate aspects of risk adjustment, capitation, and pay-for-performance. Physicians are often viewed as potential barriers to implementation of organizational change, but little is known about internist opinion on GPC involvement or specific internist attributes that might predict GPC support. We aimed to investigate internist and internal medicine subspecialist support of GPC involvement, and to identify associations among physician attributes, GPC knowledge, and GPC support.

Study design

Cross-sectional.

Methods

General medicine and internal medicine subspecialist physicians within the Beth Israel Deaconess Department of Medicine i

SUBMITTER: Allen-Dicker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5242330 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature