Capitation
The Once and Future King Of all the “value-based” provider payment methodologies, this one’s the classic. And it may be mounting a comeback. The Macarena has yielded the dance floor, the TV hospital show E.R. is long gone, and the president is no longer named Clinton—for the moment, anyway. But the payment methodology that was white-hot in health care in 1996 seems to be warming up once more. Of course, it’s capitation. Capitation—paying providers upfront on a per-member, per-month basis... View Article
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