Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by or requiring capitation.
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- adjective Of or related to a
capitation payment system for health-care providers. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
capitate .
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Examples
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If he is "capitated," he receives a set amount per month, say 825, for every HMO member under its care.
Beware Your Hmo 2008
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Possick said limiting the network to "capitated" physicians makes it impossible for solo practitioners like him to participate and puts the wrong incentive into the mix.
The Medical Quack The Medical Quack 2010
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Possick said limiting the network to "capitated" physicians makes it impossible for solo practitioners like him to participate and puts the wrong incentive into the mix.
The Medical Quack The Medical Quack 2010
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Donald Crane, CEO of the California Association of Physician Groups, suggested a "capitated" physician payment system, which he said would place a greater emphasis on prevention and early treatment to keep costs down.
Emaxhealth 2008
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Probably a better model is the capitated, per month payment.
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Then, many consumers turned against coverage models that limited their choice of providers, as well as structures that involved set per-patient "capitated" payments to providers, which some felt carried a financial incentive for doctors to limit the care they gave.
Steward Health Takes Insurer Role Anna Wilde Mathews 2011
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Probably a better model is the capitated, per month payment.
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As a warrior from the days of capitation, let me offer some lessons learned from the bad old days when our medical group had several large capitated contracts.
Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.: Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System? M.D. Victoria Rogers McEvoy 2011
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Its debts became unsustainable after it piled on too many money-losing assets, failed to manage the new primary-care physicians successfully, and lost money on capitated business, according to an account published in Health Affairs in 2000.
Veteran Health-Care Executives Say It Has All Been Tried Before, With Mixed Results Anna Wilde Mathews 2011
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Also keep in mind that, just as prodding doctors to limit choices and treatments may be one bad side effect of capitated systems, prodding doctors to provide excessive, wasteful and potentially risky care is a bad side effect of fee-for-service payment.
Can Accountable-Care Organizations Improve Health Care While Reducing Costs? Anna Wilde Mathews 2012
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