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Apr 1, 2019 · We found that the access bonus flowed disproportionately to physicians outside large cities and to those whose patients made fewer primary care visits, received less after-hours care, made...
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We found that the access bonus flowed disproportionately to physicians outside large cities and to those whose patients made fewer primary care visits, received less after-hours care, made more emergency department visits, and had higher adjusted ambulatory costs.
The access bonus is available to Ontario family practices that operate within a blended capitation model of care. In this model, patients are enrolled to a family physician and most physician earnings come from an annual per-patient payment, adjusted for patient age and sex.
Aug 1, 2017 · Primary care funding related to performance targets were not included in patient level costs and but these would affect costs across the primary care models to a similar extent, with the exception of the FFS patients, for which physicians do not receive any bonus payments.
- Maude Laberge, Walter P Wodchis, Walter P Wodchis, Jan Barnsley, Audrey Laporte
- 2017
We linked this payment data to adult (≥ 16 yr) patient data from the Healthcare Experiences Survey to examine the relation between access bonus achievement (in quintiles of the proportion of bonus achieved, from lowest [Q1, reference category] to highest [Q5]) and 4 patient-reported access outcomes.
Apr 1, 2019 · We found that the access bonus flowed disproportionately to physicians outside large cities and to those whose patients made fewer primary care visits, received less after-hours care, made more...
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Mar 27, 2008 · While such bonuses can be effective, they are often not cost-effective: they must pay bonuses to practitioners who previously met the target in order to motivate the change at the margin among those who did not.
