In particular, primary care specialties are seeing more and more of their total cash compensation come from quality and value measures, according to the report, which was based on information from a group of more than 30 large, multispecialty medical groups and health systems with experience using these measures in incentive plans. Of these groups, 70 percent said incentives are paid as a percentage of salary, and almost 60 percent said incentive payments vary across specialty.
Based on the survey, here are the top five specialties with the highest reported use of quality-based performance measures.
1. Internal medicine — 94 percent
2. Hospitalist, internal medicine — 93 percent
3. Family medicine — 90 percent
4. Anesthesiology — 88 percent
5. Diagnostic radiology, interventional — 88 percent
For internal medicine, the specialty with the highest use of quality-based compensation, the top measures were patient experience, preventive health services, tobacco cessation counseling, readmission rates and medication reconciliation.
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