Making Practice Metrics Matter

Clinical Scorecard: Sustainable Growth for Small Practices: Designing Performance-Driven Incentive Plans

Category	Detail
Condition	Practice-management topic: performance metrics and incentive-plan design in small practices
Key Mechanisms	The speaker discussed productivity-based, quality-based, and hybrid incentive models, and using consistently measured practice metrics in performance plans.
Target Population	Small practices and their staff, physicians, and other stakeholders
Care Setting	Small-practice management

At the AAO 2026 meeting, Alexandra Acabá Berrocal presented a workshop on designing performance-driven incentive plans tailored to specific practices.
Berrocal described implementing a performance-improvement program to hold staff and physicians accountable.
The workshop covered productivity-based, quality-based, and hybrid incentive models.
Berrocal discussed the importance of measuring practice metrics consistently and using them to develop incentive plans.
Berrocal said these frameworks can motivate teams, improve accountability, support retention, and support practice growth.

The speaker discussed tailoring performance plans to specific practices.
The speaker discussed productivity-based, quality-based, and hybrid incentive models and using metrics in incentive plans.

The speaker described employee turnover as a current concern for small practices.

Not discussed; the article focuses on practice management rather than patient treatment.

No patient prescribing or treatment information is provided.

The speaker described a performance-improvement program that held staff and physicians accountable.
The workshop covered productivity-based, quality-based, and hybrid incentive models.