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Disclosure of physicians' compensation may increase patients' loyalty

Published in Law and Health Weekly, April 22nd, 2006

Providing notices that explain how physicians are paid appears to increase patients’ knowledge about compensation models, does not harm trust and may increase the loyalty patients feel toward their physicians, according to a study in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

During the 1990s and continuing today, the public and the media focused heavily on the ethics of physician compensation plans such as capitation, in which physicians receive a lump sum for each patient they manage, according to background information in the article. “Commentaries by physicians, media reports, editorial cartoons and even popular movies raised alarms that these new...

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Source: Law and Health Weekly (2006-04-22)

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