Table 1.
Sample Characteristics
| Perceived financial incentives | |
| Reduce services to patients | 7.4% |
| Neutral | 69.4 |
| Increase services to patients | 23.3 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 76.5 |
| Female | 23.6 |
| Specialty | |
| Primary care | 39.8 |
| Specialist | 60.2 |
| Years in practice | |
| ≤5 | 19.0 |
| 6–29 | 72.6 |
| 30+ | 8.5 |
| Foreign medical graduate | |
| No | 78.8 |
| Yes | 21.2 |
| Ownership and compensation | |
| Employees | |
| Fixed income with no/small bonus | 27.5 |
| Fixed income with large bonus | 2.4 |
| Variable income | 14.0 |
| Part owners | 24.1 |
| Full owners | 32.1 |
| Factors determining compensation | |
| Productivity | 78.1 |
| Profiling based on use of services | 9.3 |
| Results of patient satisfaction surveys | 17.7 |
| Specific quality measures | 13.1 |
| Practice revenue from capitation | |
| None | 54.8% |
| To 25% | 24.5 |
| 25% or more | 20.7 |
| Percent of patients physician serves as gatekeeper (PCPs) (%) | |
| <10 | 15.2 |
| 10–49 | 39.1 |
| 50+ | 45.8 |
| Perceived market competitiveness | |
| Not competitive | 31.5 |
| Somewhat competitive | 45.5 |
| Very competitive | 23.1 |
| Practice preference factors that are very important | |
| Control over hours | 64.2 |
| Control over medical decisions | 90.7 |
| Potential income | 42.3 |
| Control over business decisions | 48.3 |
| Type of practice | |
| Solo/2 physician | 33.4 |
| Groups with 3–10 physicians | 20.0 |
| Groups with 11–50 physicians | 6.9 |
| Groups with >50 physicians | 2.4 |
| Group/staff model HMO | 3.8 |
| Medical school | 8.4 |
| Hospital | 12.0 |
| Other | 13.1 |