Background: Incentive payments for chronic diseases in British Columbia were intended to
support primary care physicians in providing more comprehensive care, but research shows …

Context: In its fee-for-service funding model for primary care, British Columbia, Canada,
introduced incentive payments to general practitioners as pay for performance for providing …

Background: In 2007, the province of British Columbia implemented incentive payments to
primary care physicians for the provision of comprehensive, continuous, guideline-informed …

Objectives: To determine whether physicians who participated in a Medicare Accountable
Care Organization (ACO) reduced spending among their commercial patients. Design: This …

Methods: We collected linked administrative health care data for the period 1 April 2013 to
31 March 2017 from databases held at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the extent of variation in physicians' charges for health care
encounters with unannounced standardized patients and factors associated with the …

It is estimated that 66% of total health care spending in the United States is directed toward
care for about 27% of individuals with multiple chronic conditions. 1 Many policy experts …

Background Managed-care organizations' use of financial incentives to influence the
practice of primary care physicians is controversial. We studied the prevalence and effects of …

Objectives To examine the relationship between the compensation strategies of primary
care physicians (PCPs) and the quality and outcomes of care delivered to Medicare …

We studied the effects of incentive payments to primary care physicians for the care of
patients with diabetes, hypertension, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) …