Issue Brief Examines Trends In Physician Financial Incentives; Fact Sheets Discuss Long-Term Care Financing

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice
Also Included In: Caregivers / Homecare;  Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP
Article Date: 09 Jan 2007 - 14:00 PDT

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"Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches up, but Productivity Still Dominates," Center for Studying Health System Change: The issue brief examines how productivity-based systems for providing physicians with financial incentives are still more commonly used than pay-for-performance programs, affecting about 70% of physicians in non-solo practices. However, use of quality-related physician compensation programs has increased from 17.6% of physicians in group practices in 2000-2001 to 20.2% in 2004-2005. Trends since 1996-1997 indicate that pay-for-performance systems are most popular among primary care physicians and large practices (Reschovsky/Hadley, "Physician Financial Incentives: Use of Quality Incentives Inches up, but Productivity Still Dominates," January 2007).

Fact Sheets: "Long-Term Care Financing Project," Georgetown University: The fact sheets, which are part of the Georgetown University Long-Term Care Financing Project, discuss Medicaid's role in long-term care financing and national spending on long-term care by different groups of payers, including Medicaid and Medicare. In addition, the papers discuss policy issues affecting long-term care and differences in Medicaid benefits among states (Long-Term Care Financing Project release, January 2007). The "National Spending for Long-Term Care" fact sheet is available online, and the "Medicaid and Long-Term Care" fact sheet is available online.

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