Fee capitation vs. fee-for-service primary care

Monday, May 25, 2009 - 16:35 in Health & Medicine

Primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada who volunteered to adopt the new capitation model for payment, compared with those who opted for an enhanced fee-for-service model, had fewer sick patients, less after-hours billing, more patients who visited the emergency department and fewer new patients, found a new study in CMAJ

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