RevCycle Intelligence December 5, 2019
The amount of physician compensation tied to value-based metrics increased across four major specialties from 2018 to 2019, a new report shows.
The prominence of value-based incentives in physician compensation programs increased by five to seven percent from 2018 to 2019 across four major specialty categories, according to a SullivanCotter report.
Specifically, the report analyzing survey responses of more than 206,000 individual physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) from nearly 700 organizations found that value-based incentive components in primary care compensation was up five percent from last year, with 62 percent of organizations incorporating these incentives into their physician compensation programs. Medical, surgical, and hospital-based specialties all fell in the range of 55 to 57 percent.
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