To improve our health system’s performance, we must find ways to help frontline professionals make the best possible decisions. In a new blog post, Mark Zezza, Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D., and Dominique Hall discuss a new Commonwealth Fund initiative, “Incentives 2.0: A Synergistic Approach to Provider Incentives,” that is examining the range of factors that influence providers’ choices. These include not just financial rewards and penalties, but also intrinsic motivation and professionalism, organizational influences, and policy.