Association of Primary Care Physician Compensation Incentives and Quality of Care in the United States, 2012-2016.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician compensation incentives may have positive or negative effects on clinical quality.

Objective

To assess the association between various physician compensation incentives on technical indicators of primary care quality.

Design

Cross-sectional, nationally representative retrospective analysis.

Participants

Visits by adults to primary care physicians in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from 2012-2016. We analyzed 49,580 sampled visits, representing 1.45 billion primary care visits.

Main measures

We assessed the association between 5 compensation incentives - quality measure performance, patient experience scores, individual productivity, practice financial performance, or practice efficiency - and 10 high-value and 7 low-value

SUBMITTER: Burstein DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8811085 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature