Dangling modifiers
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Staff-model health maintenance organizations (HMO) are struggling to compete in increasingly competitive markets, and reassessing physician compensation may be a means of more effectively responding to changing market conditions. Six hundred physicians formerly with the Harvard Pilgrim Health Plan HMO have formed a group that proposes to set aside 10% of each physician's salary as incentive pay. Physicians compensated in this way would theoretically be more likely to put forth more notable efforts, thereby gaining market share by improving their ratings on patient surveys.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1997
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The measure of medical services
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Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage physicians to improve the quality of their services. Ernst & Young partner Peter Kongstvedt noted that the use of physician incentives has increased significantly since early 1994. HMOs are focusing on quality in order to better promote themselves to the public and to doctors.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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Paywatch: how you're killing doctors' entrepreneurial spirit - and what you can do about it
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Hospitals are losing revenues when they pay their doctors a fixed salary instead of offering them productivity incentives. According to a survey, physicians who work within a hospital department or who are involved in a staff-model health maintenance organization do not fare as well as those who operate within a group-model health maintenance organization.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1996
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