If he is "capitated," he receives a set amount per month, say 825, for every HMO member under its care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware Your Hmo] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medical Quack] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emaxhealth] Reference

As it happened, his insurance was a capitated plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Dilemma: Doctors as Patients] Reference

After all, you're getting those capitated payments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Dilemma: Doctors as Patients] Reference

Probably a better model is the capitated, per month payment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Issues: Health Care] Reference

You get to keep whatever words under 167 you don't use, if you're in a capitated system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Managed Care] Reference

It was the first entirely capitated, prepaid competitively bid Medicaid program in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabinet Secretaries Briefing On Health Care Reform] Reference

Even capitated patients pay a Co-pay to see me, that is the only real "profit" that I make a living on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things I Won't Do; and Some That I Will] Reference

VERA has since been modified a number of times to define patient groups in greater detail, but retains its basic structure as a capitated budgeting system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Director's Blog » Blog Archive » VA health system: interim report] Reference

In 1996 as the new medical director for our multispecialty group, I inherited several large capitated contracts from major insurers in the New England area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.: Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System?] Reference

There were quite a few challenges to providing cost efficient capitated care, particularly in an urban setting with a challenging socio-economic patient mix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.: Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System?] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.: Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System?] Reference

Some capitated plans stationed a nurse in the emergency room to head off inappropriate visits to the ER and redirect the patient to a more appropriate setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Rogers McEvoy, M.D.: Will Global Payments Improve The Health Care System?] Reference

And pricing for health care services in a world without the current system of capitated Medicare payments and cost-based Medicaid schedules is almost impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Serious Health Care Reform Proposal:] Reference

Areas for possible bipartisan agreement in the new law include moving our public health system from a "fee for service" model, which is immune to market forces, to a capitated model capped fees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rich Tafel: The Real Health Deal Begins] Reference

It appears inevitable that capitated payment approaches are to be important tools for managing care and services for dual eligibles in the future just as they are for other parts of the Medicare population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testimony Before The U.S. Senate Special Committee On Aging] Reference

METHODS: We assessed the appropriateness of recommendations for hysterectomy for 497 women who had the operation between August 1993 and July 1995 in one of nine capitated medical groups in Southern California.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of the Hysterectomy] Reference

Again, I think of it as fundamentally a capitated system in Ontario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

The capitated rate for the new beneficiaries is not yet risk-adjusted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii Reporter] Reference

(PricewaterhouseCoo - ducts, and capitated reimbursement systems. pers, 2002).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Advantage plans for which the government sets a capitated (per member) payment.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Kaiser Health News] Reference

Typically, this global fee is capitated. savings within the fi rst 6-12 months of initiation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The number of capitated hospitals we have in Medicare are very small in light of the total population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference

Crane pointed to the experience of medical groups that currently are receiving capitated payments and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emaxhealth] Reference

Lawsuits Should jury awards to plaintiffs be capitated to reduce frivilous malpractice lawsuits for health care providers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference

Limiting patient choice is a sine qua non if the state is serious about changing the mode of payment to a capitated system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running a hospital] Reference

Priority Partners operates under a capitated system-that is, it receives a set payment per individual per month from the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii Reporter] Reference

Health reform points to a world of centralized rationing through Medicare and a return to capitated payments by private payers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

So it's very difficult to make a blanket statement that x percent of accounts are approaching pricing from a capitated way or otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stryker Corporation CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha] Reference

All of these services are offered at a predictable capitated payment rate that maintains people in the community, where they want to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

In particular, this shared savings approach offers an interesting alternative to the fully capitated type of plans that have recently been proposed in some forums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running a hospital] Reference

If you've been in health care more than 25 years, you've been vertically integrated, you've been horizontally integrated, you've been capitated, decapitated, re-engineered. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [PNJ - News] Reference

This chapter will introduce cally prepaid or capitated, has more control over basic concepts in managed care, discuss the impact the utilization of services, and thereby costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Still capitated heads may roll.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

For this usually on a capitated basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Finally, they "capitated" the doctors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francine Hardaway: The New Cigna: Not Your Father's Health Plan] Reference