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Home Research Research Library Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) 2011 Author(s) Petterson, Stephen M, Bazemore, Andrew W, Phillips, Robert L, Xierali, Imam M, Rinaldo, Jason C, Green, Larry A, and Puffer, James C Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, JABFM Policy Brief, Measurement, and Payment Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Family physicians’ scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality. Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) used a narrow definition of primary care that inadvertently offers family physicians disincentives to delivering comprehensive primary care. ABFM Research Read all 2021 Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education Go to Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education 2014 One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care. Go to One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care. 2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions 2025 Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Go to Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) Petterson, Stephen M, Bazemore, Andrew W, Phillips, Robert L, Xierali, Imam M, Rinaldo, Jason C, Green, Larry A, and Puffer, James C Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, JABFM Policy Brief, Measurement, and Payment Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2021 Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education Go to Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education 2014 One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care. Go to One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care. 2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions 2025 Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Go to Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education Go to Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education
2014 One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care. Go to One in Fifteen Family Physicians Principally provide Emergency or Urgent Care.
2019 Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions Go to Debt and the emerging physician workforce: the relationship between educational debt and family medicine residents’ practice and fellowship intentions
2025 Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic Go to Rural and urban differences in family physician burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic