capitation
/kapɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
The payment of a fee or grant to a doctor, school, etc., the amount of which is determined by the number of patients, pupils, or customers that are served: [as modifier]: income from capitation fees...
- An increase in capitation grants to schools of only €50 per pupil would meet the annual insurance costs.
- By combining several regional groups of physicians, they were able to negotiate capitation payments for large patient populations.
- Incentives may be aimed directly at individual doctors such as capitation payments, caps on fee-for-service income, and target payments for screening set proportions of a population.
Origin
Early 17th century (denoting the counting of heads): from late Latin capitatio 'poll tax', from caput 'head'.
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