the practice of giving physicians personal financial incentives to limit the provision of care to their patients. These … incentives for physicians to limit care should not be used and should even be prohibited. In this article, I argue that the … critics have argued that, if physicians are paid more to do less, patients will suffer harm from undertreated illness, and …

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 … study this link using the recent primary care reform in Ontario as a natural experiment and the Diabetes Management …

This paper examines changes in the motivation of physicians at work since the start of the salary reforms in 2008 …% of physicians believe that they are working at a high level of quality and performance.The majority of physicians desire …

We measure the response of physicians to monetary incentives using matched administrative and time-use data on … services. Our results confirm that physicians respond to incentives in predictable ways. The own-price substitution effects of … specialists from Québec (Canada). These physicians were paid fee-for-service contracts and supplied a number of different services …

physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …

physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model … was introduced in 2007, we find that physicians in the FHO model provide about 6 percent fewer services and visits per day … immunizations, pap smears, and mammograms compared to physicians in the FHG model. These results are largely consistent with the …

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 … study this link using the recent primary care reform in Ontario as a natural experiment and the Diabetes Management …

We study an enhanced fee-for-service model for primary care physicians in the Family Health Groups (FHG) in Ontario … distinct patients seen. We also find that the FHG physicians have lower referral rates and treat slightly more complex patients … than the comparable FFS physicians. These results suggest that the FHG model offers a promising alternative to the FFS …