Table 3.

Expanded and reduced form typologies of physician financial incentives

Expanded typology	Proportion with incentives to increase services		Reduced form typology
Group 1a	0.061	0.083	Group 1
Employee			Employees
Fixed compensation			Fixed compensation
No explicit incentives
Group 1b	0.109
Employee
Fixed compensation
One or more explicit incentives
Group 2a	0.148	0.160	Group 2
Employee			Employees
Variable compensation			Variable compensation
No explicit incentives			No incentives-or-one or more explicit incentives and high capitation environment
Any capitation
Group 2b	0.168
Employee
Variable compensation
One or more explicit incentives
High capitation environment
Group 3a	0.171	0.186	Group 3
Owner (part or full)			Owners
No explicit incentives			No explicit incentives
Group 3b	0.188
Full owner of solo practice
Group 4a	0.199	0.204	Group 4
Owner (part or full)			Owners
One or more explicit incentives			High capitation and one or more explicit incentives-or-low capitation and incentive combinations other than productivity alone or productivity and practice financial performance
High capitation environment
Group 4b	0.206
Owners
One or more explicit incentives other than productivity alone or productivity and practice financial performance
Low capitation environment
Group 5	0.253	0.253	Group 5
Employee			Employee
Variable compensation			Variable compensation
One or more explicit incentives			One or more explicit incentives
Low capitation environment			Low capitation environment
Group 6a	0.303	0.323	Group 6
Owners			Owners w/low capitation and productivity only or productivity and practice financial performance incentives
Productivity and practice financial performance incentives only
Low capitation
Group 6b	0.367
Owners
Productivity incentive only
Low capitation