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Revisiting Executive Incentive Compensation
Incentive compensation plans are intended to focus executives’ attention on their organizations’ most vital priorities and initiatives. As health care organizations revise their business strategies to address the ongoing transformation of care delivery and payment, health care boards also need to reassess the structure and measures of performance in their executive incentive compensation plans. Such an assessment can help to determine whether incentive plans and executive performance are aligned with a health system’s current goals and the changing marketplace.