Physicians’ engagement: Medical Care Groups

Physicians’ engagement: Medical Care Groups

DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082016ED3757 CliniCal Staff ProjeCt introduction The relation between the Hospital Albert Einstein and its clinical staff dates from the start of its activities. The invitation to physicians to work at the hospital, made by the President himself, an initial model of attracting doctors, was followed by the orchestration of the form of registering professionals, when the need...

Physicians and Medical Care

Assessing the influence of incentives on physicians and medical groups.

This article describes issues that should be considered in the development of a theory or theories about incentives from which testable hypotheses could be derived. Economic, psychological, and organizational theories are described, and issues that should be considered in hypothesis generation are presented. Psychological factors influencing incentives include decision framing, regret, heuristi...

Quality-based payment for medical groups and individual physicians.

This paper measures the extent to which medical groups experience external pay-for-performance incentives based on quality and patient satisfaction and the extent to which these groups pay their primary care and specialist physicians using similar criteria. Over half (52%) of large medical groups received bonus payments from health insurance plans in the period 2006-2007 based on measures of qu...

Large Independent Primary Care Medical Groups.

PURPOSE In the turbulent US health care environment, many primary care physicians seek hospital employment. Large physician-owned primary care groups are an alternative, but few physicians or policy makers realize that such groups exist. We wanted to describe these groups, their advantages, and their challenges. METHODS We identified 21 groups and studied 5 that varied in size and location. W...