This article delineates a broad conceptual framework for predicting physician behavioral response to financial incentives. The framework views incentives within a two-tiered hierarchy: (1) private health plan or public program payments to the provider organization, e.g., the medical group...

This report assesses the first known collaboration formed to establish financial incentives for multiple health plans in Medicaid to improve the timeliness of care for low-income children in California. The authors note that most plans found it feasible, but not easy, to implement the...

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performance related remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other is a more structured...

An innovative business practice attributed to the information technology (IT) industry is the aggressive use of employee stock options to compensate executives and other employees. In this study, we investigate whether the greater use of stock options in the IT industry can be explained on the...