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Editorial
. 2015 Feb;30(2):152-4.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-3035-2.

Rethinking physician payment

Zirui Song  1 , Laurence F McMahon Jr
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Editorial

Rethinking physician payment

Zirui Song et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Feb.
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The three dimensions along which innovations in physician payment have traditionally taken place: (1) the degree of financial risk that physicians bear, (2) the extent to which payment is based on quality, and (3) the level of the organization at which incentives are targeted. Current reforms are moving physicians away from the intersection of the three lines—which denotes the pure RVU system with no quality components for the individual—towards the opposite corner of the box, which captures the idea of a group-level global budget based on quality. Despite current reforms, physician payment in the U.S. remains closer to the former point than the latter.
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