With quality performance tied to hospital reimbursements and revenue, leaders are using those same scores to decide how to pay their physicians. Fifty-seven percent of healthcare executives and clinical leaders use quality metrics as an incentive for physician compensation, with 50 percent now using patient satisfaction as incentives, according to a HealthLeaders Media report released last week. Sixty-five percent of those leaders surveyed said they anticipate physician compensation will remain relatively flat with increases of 1 to 4 percent. Many of them (59 percent) said healthcare reform was a deciding factor in how physician compensation was structured, FierceHealthcare reports. --Read the full report from FierceHealthcare