BACKGROUND The accountable care organization (ACO) is a new organizational form to manage patients across the continuum of care. There are numerous questions about how ACOs should be optimally structured, including compensation arrangements with primary care physicians. METHODS Using data from a national survey of physician practices, we compared primary care physicians' compensation between ...

Compensation measures are a new method for handling impact on cultural heritage in land use planning. The idea with compensation measures can be understood as an extension of the polluter pays principle. Today, compensation measures are mainly used when natural environments are damaged by development, but it is also possible to use compensation measures when a project results in negative impact...

In many control system design problems a mere change in the controller (proportional) gain cannot satisfy desired specifications. As a result controller dynamics are introduced to alter (compensate) the overall (closed-loop) system dynamics. There are two widely used techniques for dynamic compensation. Lead compensation acts mainly to lower the rise time and decrease the overshoot of a feedbac...

This short note considers the use of nonlinear timevarying compensation for linear time-invariant discrete-time plants. It is shown via counterexample that the problem of simultaneous performance presents fundamental limitations which cannot be overcome by nonlinear time-varying compensation. This result is in contrast to results on simultaneous stabilization which show that limitations due to ...

Using 1998-2005 EXECUCOMP data on Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) CEOs, this study addresses some of the issues that arise when modeling CEO incentive-based compensation. The purpose is to investigate how profit efficiencies are impacted by CEO compensation and their composition of pay packages. Since a disproportionate amount of a REITs expenses are executive compensation related, this iss...

BACKGROUND Workers' compensation systems are among the most generous disability insurance systems in North America, although they are also known to be potentially adversarial and may have iatrogenic effects on claimants. This article examines issues to be considered to ensure fair compensation provided in a way that respects the dignity of workers. METHODS An overview of the literature on cha...

Objectives: We analyzed APVS satisfaction, compensation, perceived and actual gaps between academic and private practice compensation. Methods: 22 APVS completed a survey. Compensation data for APVS and private practice vascular surgeons (PPVS) was gathered from the Medical Group Management Association and Association of American Medical Colleges, respectively. Compensation was compared between...

When a financial damage has been inflicted, perpetrators can satisfy victims’ outcome related concerns by providing a financial compensation. Few studies have investigated, however, whether overcompensation (i.e., compensation that is greater than the damage suffered) is more beneficial than equal compensation (i.e., compensation that covers the exact damage suffered). The results of four studi...

abstract building on the notions of soft or “high commitment” human resource management , the relationship between human resource practices and work outcomes is an increasingly researched topic in human resource management . founded upon a theory y approach of employees as active,self-controlled human beings who like work, seek responsibility, and serve objectives to which they are committed, s...