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There is growing interest in measuring the performance of physicians. At U.S. Healthcare (USHC), performance assessment is the responsibility of U.S. Quality Algorithms, one of its subsidiaries. This article discusses the development and application of certain measures employed to assess the performance of physicians and how compensation is linked to performance in USHC's quality-based compensation model.
Hanchak et al. (Sun,) studied this question.