Perverse incentives need to be stopped. Providers should be firewalled from finances, not in on the action. If one were to dig deeper into more doctors I have no doubt the same kinds of behavior would be discovered along with that form of compensation.
Providers should be firewalled from finances, not in on the action.
That’s a crucial point. The "eat what you kill" compensation model, where doctors are paid based on volume of procedures and visits (RVUs) creates the environment for this to continue to happen again and again.
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Perverse incentives need to be stopped. Providers should be firewalled from finances, not in on the action. If one were to dig deeper into more doctors I have no doubt the same kinds of behavior would be discovered along with that form of compensation.
That’s a crucial point. The "eat what you kill" compensation model, where doctors are paid based on volume of procedures and visits (RVUs) creates the environment for this to continue to happen again and again.