Incentive Bonuses in Prepayment Plans

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"...A physician should limit the source of his professional income to medical services actually rendered by him...to his patients."1 This precept of medical ethics is now under fire from within and without the profession. The attack comes from those who propose that prepaid group insurance plans, combined with financial rewards and punishments for physicians, are a panacea for the problems they perceive in American medicine, and especially the problem of cost.The proposal to pay incentive bonuses to physicians is taking place during a national debate on two philosophies of financing medical care.2 One philosophy proposes that people have a . . .

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