{"id":2592,"date":"2012-04-24T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poweryourpractice.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2025-07-15T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:16:49","slug":"physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Compensation: How Should Doctors Be Paid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the American Medical Association a few months after taking office in 2009, President Obama said that the U.S. healthcare system \u201crewards the <strong>quantity of care rather than the quality of care<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That statement, made by the president as he took the first steps toward healthcare reform, is still true of many U.S. insurance plans and healthcare organizations. Though the issue of physician compensation sometimes takes a backseat to more immediate reforms, it remains a pertinent concern in medical establishments across the country.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Payment Models, Payment Worries<br \/>\n<\/strong>How (and how much) a physician is paid is a touchy issue \u2013 one many medical administrators would rather not think about. \u00a0What <em>is<\/em> the right way to pay a doctor?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a variety of bad ways of paying doctors, but no particularly good ones,\u201d wrote Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein in a piece for <a href=\"http:\/\/roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/18\/better-medical-care-for-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cFee-for-service health care rewards the overprovision of care; capitation (a set monthly fee per patient) rewards underprovision; and <strong>salaries reward just showing up<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the day-to-day management of your medical practice, you have little control over how your payers choose to reimburse or contract with the docs treating patients in your office. But you can control whether or not to incentivize the physicians you bring on board, and should weigh that decision carefully before presenting any doctor with a job offer or contract.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incentives Without Improvements<br \/>\n<\/strong>Healthcare industry experts tend to agree that providing physicians with incentives based on the amount of medical care doled out to patients is, while popular, a sometimes troubling model.<\/p>\n<p>That approach makes it far too easy for a minority of \u201cbad egg\u201d practitioners to spoil the proverbial bunch by ordering extra tests, performing unnecessary procedures and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/make-better-decisions-through-business-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encouraging unwarranted patient encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Patients who are victims of overprovision rarely know it, thinking instead that they\u2019re just getting an acceptably high level of attention and care from their physicians. People often tend to think that \u201cmore is better,\u201d but, <strong>when it comes to healthcare, more can definitely be worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In research on healthcare costs, Dartmouth economists Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra discovered that the more money Medicare spent per person in a U.S. state, the lower its nationwide quality ranking tended to be.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that evidence to the contrary, most provider groups continue to focus on high productivity as a mark of successful practicing.<\/p>\n<p>The data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.hcpro.com\/pdf\/content\/272110.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report<\/a> in late 2011 found that four out of five physician compensation models are still tied to productivity measures. Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements were named by 76% of respondents as the top influencing factor of their organization\u2019s physician compensation structure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incentives For Improvements<br \/>\n<\/strong>Since fee-for-service remains the predominant model for insurance reimbursement, it can seem only natural to compensate physicians in the same manner. Plus, offering incentives gives an organization bargaining power when it comes to physician recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>But different compensation models, which reward positive patient outcomes and high satisfaction levels, are gaining popularity. In the HealthLeaders Media report, 57 percent of respondents said that they <strong>prize quality as an incentive measure<\/strong>. 50 percent are also using patient satisfaction scores to motivate physicians.<\/p>\n<p>These newer approaches allow practices to maintain a competitive, incentivized advantage in today\u2019s physician-short marketplace while avoiding the \u201cmore is worse\u201d abuses of the fee-for-service doc payment model.<\/p>\n<p>The growing shift to quality-based incentivizing is largely attributed to the changes surrounding healthcare reform. Technology, though, may also be playing a factor.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amga.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Medical Group Association<\/a> conference in March 2012, physician group leaders discussed how the <strong>per-practitioner data analysis<\/strong> enabled by their electronic health record systems not only standardized care delivery, but allowed measurable outcomes to play a factor in compensation structure.<\/p>\n<p>A popular choice among the administrators at AMGA was to also use the patient satisfaction scores measured through tools like those from Press Ganey to distribute tiered bonuses to physicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking Toward the Future<br \/>\n<\/strong>Whether you choose to compensate your physicians based on satisfaction or not, it\u2019s a wise decision to get comfortable with the idea. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carecloud.com\/continuum\/measure-patient-satisfaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Your Practice reported<\/a> recently, office-based doctors will soon be subject to the same RVU structures as hospitalist physicians.<\/p>\n<p>Projections on physician compensation also point to <strong>the advent of the Accountable Care Model<\/strong>, which places physicians on salary, as an indicator of changing payment trends. Will that soon be viewed as rewarding more than just \u201cshowing up?\u201d Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>While it may seem that there are \u201cno particularly good\u201d ways to pay doctors, there are certainly a multitude of options \u2013 and expectations that accompany them \u2013 available to choose from. It\u2019s up to you to decide what incentives are right for your practice, your patients, and your physicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does your practice handle physician compensation?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing the American Medical Association a few months after taking office in 2009, President Obama said that the U.S. healthcare system \u201crewards the quantity of care rather than the quality of care.\u201d That statement, made by the president as he took the first steps toward healthcare reform, is still true of many U.S. insurance plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","category-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Continuum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cc_continuum\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cc_continuum\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cc_continuum\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6af17e75a684cc5cd23741e014351348\"},\"headline\":\"Physician Compensation: How Should Doctors Be Paid?\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":799,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Revenue\",\"Trends\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/\",\"name\":\"Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/10\\\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Physician Compensation: How Should Doctors Be Paid?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/\",\"name\":\"Continuum\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Continuum\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cc-logo-header-2021-1-2.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/03\\\/cc-logo-header-2021-1-2.png\",\"width\":218,\"height\":57,\"caption\":\"Continuum\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6af17e75a684cc5cd23741e014351348\",\"name\":\"cc_continuum\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cc_continuum\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/carecloud.com\\\/continuum\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud","description":"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud","og_description":"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?","og_url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/","og_site_name":"Continuum","article_published_time":"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":400,"height":350,"url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"cc_continuum","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cc_continuum","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/"},"author":{"name":"cc_continuum","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#\/schema\/person\/6af17e75a684cc5cd23741e014351348"},"headline":"Physician Compensation: How Should Doctors Be Paid?","datePublished":"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/"},"wordCount":799,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png","articleSection":["Revenue","Trends"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/","url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/","name":"Physician Compensation Models - CareCloud","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png","datePublished":"2012-04-24T21:26:12+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-15T17:16:49+00:00","description":"Physician compensation has been a major issue in the proposed changes of healthcare reform. What is the right way to pay a doctor?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dummy-7-paigl6zusafxfmk55j3mhrce0nfw5zrnw9chmopqcs.png","width":400,"height":350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/physician-compensation-how-should-doctors-be-paid\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Physician Compensation: How Should Doctors Be Paid?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#website","url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/","name":"Continuum","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#organization","name":"Continuum","url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cc-logo-header-2021-1-2.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cc-logo-header-2021-1-2.png","width":218,"height":57,"caption":"Continuum"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/#\/schema\/person\/6af17e75a684cc5cd23741e014351348","name":"cc_continuum","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8b6d796be6337a9688b6e065532f1be27bf69a98f06ddc7a6dda2c9cbbcf4078?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cc_continuum"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42879,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/42879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carecloud.com\/continuum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}