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?
This is called capitation, or payment per head.
These additional examinations are reimbursed on top of the capitation fee.
Remuneration for family doctors is capitation based, with an allowance made for the age structure of the population.
In contrast, capitation payments and allowances are not linked to the volume of services.
Measures aimed at explicitly rationing health-care resources, using budget ceilings and/or cuts, capitation, and reimbursement denials, have met with considerable opposition (9;22;24).
It was a nonprofit, mixed group and staff model health maintenance organization that owned its facilities and paid its physicians by salary or capitation.
In this study, capitation payments are ignored, because we are only concerned with hospital-based specialists.
Providers, be they public or private, would compete for contracts based on performance and cost, and receive a capitation payment for the populations served.
