Quality measures still represent a sliver of how doctors are paid

Despite the Affordable Care Act's push toward value-based care, bundled or incentive payments still make up only a portion of how doctors are paid, according to a new study in the Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers surveyed 632 different medical practices--both affiliated with accountable care organizations and not--and found physicians were paid with salaries, fee-for-service based on quality scores and other metrics. Altogether, the ACO and non-ACO practice doctors received about half of their compensation in salary and a slightly smaller amount based on their productivity, while about 5 percent of total pay was linked to quality measures. Read the full article from FierceHealthFinance