Aligning physician financial incentives in a mixed-payment environment.
Healthc Financ Manage
; 54(10): 46-55, 2000 Oct.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11183544
ABSTRACT
Under a shadow-pricing approach to physician compensation, physicians who deliver healthcare services to a mix of fee-for-service (FFS) and capitated patients are compensated for services via a payment schedule that treats all patients as if they were capitated. By encouraging physicians to adopt the same care-management approach for all patients, shadow pricing helps a group practice prepare for a larger share of revenues to be derived from capitation, thereby making the organization more attractive to many managed care payers. An apparent drawback of shadow pricing is that it gives physicians an incentive to reduce FFS utilization, resulting in a loss of potential revenue to the healthcare organization. This loss can be strategically justified, however, as an investment in the organization's ability to remain viable under capitation and to retain patients for whom payment may shift from FFS to capitation. In developing a shadow-pricing compensation approach, healthcare organizations can include incentives that encourage physicians to meet specific utilization targets, establish review procedures to identify physicians who deviate from the targets, and account for differences in acuity levels among different physicians' patient panels.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Capitación
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Planes de Incentivos para los Médicos
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Planes de Aranceles por Servicios
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Práctica de Grupo
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Contabilidad de Pagos y Cobros
Tipo de estudio:
Health_economic_evaluation
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Healthc Financ Manage
Año:
2000
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos