Table 2.
Determinants of the Percentage of Physician Earnings Based on Individual Productivity: Productivity-based Salary (Medical Groups) and Fee-for-Service (IPAs)
Medical Groups | IPAs | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Primary Care | Specialty Care | Primary Care | Specialty Care | |
HMO Market Penetration, 21–30% | −13.21** | −12.97** | −39.36*** | −8.27 |
(5.59) | (5.25) | (8.52) | (7.67) | |
HMO Market Penetration, 31–45% | −17.00*** | −16.90*** | −23.06*** | −18.80** |
(5.33) | (5.10) | (8.77) | (7.86) | |
HMO Market Penetration, Greater Than 45% | −12.37** | −21.10*** | −41.66*** | −26.08*** |
(5.80) | (5.50) | (8.23) | (7.43) | |
Number of Physicians | −0.017** | −0.016** | 0.010* | 0.013*** |
(0.007) | (0.006) | (0.005) | (0.005) | |
Multispecialty | 2.01 | 29.11*** | 2.77 | 34.93*** |
(5.54) | (4.95) | (10.64) | (11.45) | |
Owned by Hospital or HMO | −19.54*** | −23.75*** | 3.99 | 2.12 |
(4.22) | (4.15) | (7.09) | (6.21) | |
Age of Organization | 0.233*** | 0.212*** | 0.405 | −0.190 |
(0.087) | (0.082) | (0.468) | (0.400) | |
Intercept | 67.27 | 46.86 | 59.29 | 48.39 |
(6.48) | (5.59) | (11.58) | (13.14) | |
Adjusted R2 | 0.14 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.12 |
N | 412 | 423 | 215 | 206 |
Note: Standard errors in parentheses. Sample sizes differ because organizations without primary care physicians are not included in regressions for primary care payment method, and analogously for the specialist payment regressions.
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