Journal article
Do physician-payment mechanisms affect hospital utilization? A study of Health Service Organizations in Ontario.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether payment of primary care physicians based on capitation, with an additional incentive payment for low hospital-utilization rates, resulted in lower hospital-utilization rates among patients of these physicians than among patients of physicians still paid on a fee-for-service basis.
DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.
Authors
Hutchison B; Birch S; Hurley J; Lomas J; Stratford-Devai F
Journal
Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 154, No. 5, pp. 653–661
Publication Date
March 1, 1996
ISSN
0820-3946