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Featured blog post: What's the incentive?

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, February 9, 2010

What inspires us to work harder or more effectively? Most hospitalist programs offer physicians some sort of bonus or incentive compensation, but the evidence to support this practice is limited. Medical practices have traditionally offered employed nonpartner physicians a portion of collected revenues beyond a certain threshold. This is intended to spur new physicians to actively generate patient referrals and build their practices quickly. This seems to work in office practices, but how well does it apply to hospitalists? . . .Read more at of this post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM, at HospitalistLeadership.com.

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