Title: How to pay family doctors
Description: Primary care doctors today act more as patient managers within the health system - they diagnose, prescribe and refer, but deliver less direct services than in the past. This role fits better with a "per patient" method of compensation.
Subjects: Physician Incentive Plans, Capitation Fee, Fee-for-Service Plans, Economics, Incentive Reimbursement, Organization & administration, Salaries and Fringe Benefits, Physicians, Salaries, Medical fees, Medical economics
Places: Canada