How do you even come close to 10$/hr bonus??? By my math you would have to be billing medicare at a rate of 667$/hr to be getting a 10$/hr raise. That would be quite impressive even for the most fraudulent clinic. I guess you are talking about the rate you would get paid to do the extra paperwork.

instead i did med school & residency.

your point about the multiple PCP’s is well-taken. if a true p4p reporting project is to succeed it’ll definitely need the patient to openly identify their primary (which itself is perhaps problematic)

Even if it was 10,000K, it’s STILL not enough. For one thing, who will get the money??? Most likely, it wont be the treating physician, since each patient’s got like FIVE PCP’s.

Also, does adding an ACE I in house REALLY improve short term mortality? I might precipitate renal failure and extend the hospitalization (true story).

that’s like $2000/year for a typical primary care doctor, for ADDITIONAL work which will amount to perhaps 4 hrs/week. That comes out to a “bonus” of $10 per hour!

meanwhile private insurers are sending their nonperforming CEO’s home with pay & severance packages in the BILLIONS!