We study the effect of physician incentives in an HMO network. Physician incentives are controversial because they may … induce doctors to make treatment decisions that differ from those they would chose in the absence of incentives. We set out a … theoretical framework for assessing the degree to which incentive contracts do in fact induce physicians to deviate from a …

Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired … physician response to performance incentives and the existing payment mechanisms is still not well understood. In this paper, we … find that physicians in a blended capitation model are more responsive to the DMI than physicians in an enhanced fee …