challenges to physicians – those with specific business interests as well as those whose sole focus is patient care. Understanding the law and knowing which, if any, of the many Stark exceptions apply to your arrangement is essential. Part I of this series explained the purpose of the Stark statute, how it differs from the anti-kickback statute and how you can determine whether it applies to ...

Abstract We examine the impact of incentive compensation on riskiness acquisition decisions before and after passage Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX). Before SOX, equity-based was positively related to changes in risk around decisions, but this relationship weakened introduction SOX. The drop post-SOX acquisition-related stems from how managers respond compensation-based incentives new regulatory envir...

BACKGROUND Stroke may lead to several health problems, but positive effects can be promoted by learning to perform physical therapy techniques correctly. OBJECTIVE To compare two different types of observational practice (video instructions and demonstration by a physical therapist) during the use of incentive spirometry (IS). METHOD A total of 20 patients with diagnosis of stroke and 20 he...

.Background: Thailand implemented the FAH-SAI Clinic smoking cessation service program in 2010, which provides services through a multidisciplinary team. However, contribution of each healthcare professional terms activity frequency and time spent has not been formally assessed, appropriate incentive compensation needs to be evaluated.

PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that a health maintenance organization (HMO) consumer's satisfaction depends on the way his or her health plan compensates practitioners. DESIGN Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPS) survey data from 1999 and 2000 were provided by the Office of Public Insurance Counsel for the state of Texas. These data were combined with the Health Plan Employer Data and ...

Kidney transplantation is a superior treatment strategy than chronic dialysis for end-stage renal disease patients. However, there is a severe shortage of cadaveric kidneys that are available for transplantation. Therefore many patients are turning to living donors. We describe four models of incentives to improve rates of living kidney donation: the market compensation model, the fixed compens...

This paper studies optimal compensation contracts in the presence of both payfor-performance and termination incentives. While these incentives have been studied independently, this paper’s model is the first to incorporate both. The primary result is that pay-for-performance and the threat of termination are substitute incentive devices; holding effort constant, optimal pay-for-performance inc...

We identify and test a specific psychological mechanism underlying cross-national differences in preferences for performance-based versus redistributive compensation systems. We posit that individuals’ beliefs in the inherent justness and deservedness of individual outcomes (i.e., just world beliefs: JWBs) can help explain individual and culture-level variation in preferences for these compensa...