With her study of the current identified effects of P4P, traditional compensation models within physician groups, survey of groups which do compensate on quality and consideration of the legal issues in doing so, Alice opened the door to focusing on this aspect of motivating quality improvement. In her article, “Compensation for Quality: The Next Inevitable Step”, she not only makes the point that quality will never reach optimal levels if physicians do not have consistent payment incentives within their groups, but she affirmatively calls for more information about organizations which do pay their physicians for quality. It is hard to believe that only 14 groups around the country, and most of them very large multi-specialty organizations, are experimenting with these efforts. If your group pays your physicians in any measure for their quality performance or based on their quality performance, please contact us at agosfield@gosfield.com with your story.