TY - JOUR T1 - Rewarding Family Medicine While Penalizing Comprehensiveness? Primary Care Payment Incentives and Health Reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 637 LP - 638 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2011.06.110172 VL - 24 IS - 6 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 Y1 - 2011/11/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/24/6/637.abstract N2 - 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. ER -