Key Strengths and Weaknesses of Team-Level Quality Incentives
| Strengths |
| Quality improvement for the team |
| Compelled to do better so colleagues are not “hurt” |
| Working harder with partners’ patients because of team incentive |
| Less patient “dumping” (shifting patients with poor outcomes to other physicians) |
| Mixed |
| Positive team dynamics |
| Greater collaboration and teamwork |
| More learning from colleagues |
| Report helping others to improve quality metrics |
| Negative team dynamics |
| Greater overall tension and peer pressure |
| Resentment over how others are practicing/level of quality |
| Weaknesses |
| Lack of control over compensation |
| Free riding |