Primary care physicians paid under global capitation achieve key quality metrics at higher rates than those paid under traditional fee-for-service, according to new research by UnitedHealth Group. UHG ...

Over the past several years, the big trend in healthcare has been to inch away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward value-based care, in which a provider's reimbursement is tied more to ...

Many healthcare delivery organizations have adopted some form of value-based payment model in recent years, shifting the healthcare focus from quantity of services to quality of outcomes. In a ...

A new capitated payment model in Hawaii shifts primary care physicians away from fee-for-service reimbursement. A capitation-based primary care payment system in Hawaii improved quality of care, new ...

A 13-year study of actual compensation amounts and rates paid to solo general dentists by a capitation or managed care type of insurance plan. The article first reports and then analyzes the ...

While capitation never disappeared, its heyday ended more than a decade ago--or so most hospitals thought. Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc., could be in the ...

Contrary to popular belief, capitation is not a necessary condition for truly implementing population health at the system level, according to one New Mexico health system. There's probably no bigger ...

Looking back, it's hard to argue that capitation models have plenty of flaws--but of late, they seem to be creeping back into the consciousness of health executives, legislators and policymakers ...

Researchers from National Taiwan University Detail Findings in Managed Care (Half-Managed Care: A Preliminary Assessment of a Capitation Program in a Health Care System Without Gatekeepers) According ...