Researchers investigate impact of physician financial incentives

Reuters: Financial Incentives For Doctors Don't Always Help
Health systems haven't figured out how best to structure financial incentives to encourage primary care doctors to do their jobs better, suggests a new paper. And it's not clear that the incentives, meant to reward doctors for improving patient care, always do more good than harm, according to Australian researchers who collected data from studies of incentive programs in the U.S., the UK and Germany (Pittman, 9/9).