This DataWatch examines an outpatient capitated payment system, in the state of Oregon, designed to enhance community services for persons with chronic mental illness who had repeatedly been ...

Capitated payments in the form of fixed monthly payments to cover all of the costs associated with delivering primary care could encourage primary care practices to transform the way they deliver care ...

Team documentation (i.e., the use of scribes) has the potential to improve primary care clinician satisfaction and efficiency, yet little has been known about the financial and time use implications.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Routine office visits that involved a team documentation approach avoided net revenue losses when the office ...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the capitation rates for hospice care through the value-based insurance design model (VBID), often referred to as the ...

For decades, our health care system has been tied to a fee-for-service model. This payment approach creates an incentive for providers to require patients to undergo additional tests that may not be ...

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 ...

Practices with patients signed up to a private capitation scheme should have a steady income stream. Along with the type of care provided to those patients, this might be an attractive arrangement for ...

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 ...

Capitation once again seems on track to displace fee-for-service as the industry's predominant payment model. Unlike in the 1990 s, the casualties may be the providers that cannot adapt, not the ...