Forbes June 18, 2018
Bruce Japsen

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As insurance companies shift more reimbursement away from fee-for-service medicine, doctors and their practices are seeing more of their bonuses and pay hikes based on “value-based metrics such as patient satisfaction and outcome measures,” new reports on physician compensation indicate.

Physician staffing firm MerrittHawkins said 43% of its clients offering physicians a “production bonus” last year based the bonus “in whole or in part on value-based metrics such as patient satisfaction and outcome measures.” That compares to 39% in 2016 and 32% in 2015, according to Merritt’s 2018 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives.

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