How to construct quality bonus plans
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, December 2, 2008
Quality bonus plans tend to be more subjective than productivity-based bonus plans and therefore more difficult to design and administer. It is important to design quality-incentive plans around goals that are well-defined, unambiguously measured, and easily attributable to individual physician performance. Quality bonus plans are typically based on the following measurements:
- Patient satisfaction based on a survey
- Referring physician satisfaction based on a survey
- Core measures
- Readmission rate
- Mortality rate
- Good citizenship based on hospital committee work, timely medical records, and good behavior
These combined measurements are methods of assessing the performance of a physician for quality-based bonuses.
The above excerpt is adapted from Practical Guide to Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention by Kirk Mathews, foreword by John Nelson, MD, FACP, published by HCPro, Inc.
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