PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stephen Petterson
AU  - Andrew W. Bazemore
AU  - Robert L. Phillips
AU  - Imam M. Xierali
AU  - Jason Rinaldo
AU  - Larry A. Green
AU  - James C. Puffer
TI  - Rewarding Family Medicine While Penalizing Comprehensiveness? Primary Care Payment Incentives and Health Reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2011.06.110172
DP  - 2011 Nov 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 637--638
VI  - 24
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/637.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/637.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2011 Nov 01; 24
AB  - Family physicians' scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality. Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) used a narrow definition of primary care that inadvertently offers family physicians disincentives to delivering comprehensive primary care.