0 a tax, charge, or amount that is fixed at the same level for everyone:
1 payment to a medical worker based on the number of patients in their care:
In Britain general practitioners are paid mainly through a mixture of capitation and performance payments.
2 an amount of money given by the government to a school based on the number of students at the school:
How is the allocation of capitation to departments within a secondary school calculated?
Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.
The main changes involved dentists receiving fixed capitation payments (scaled by age) covering all routine dental care for children.
Rather, with both the land revenue and the capitation tax, the administration agreed substantial cuts in the rates and considerably enhanced remissions.
Capitation payments, typically used in the context of primary care, fit between these two polls.
However, there are grounds for arguing that the impact of the reductions in the rate of capitation tax and the increased remissions was limited.
Unlike the fee-for-service reimbursement system, the capitation model removed the need for physicians to have direct contact with all patients accessing services in the practice.
The contract was revised in 1996 to improve item of service fees but retain a capitation payment.
Providers, be they public or private, would compete for contracts based on performance and cost, and receive a capitation payment for the populations served.
