OBJECTIVES: To determine whether payment of primary care physicians based on
capitation, with an additional incentive payment for low hospital-utilization rates, resulted in …

The ability to achieve reductions in health care costs is determined in part by physician
payment mechanisms. This study observes the response to a change in the reimbursement …

Commercial health insurers in California use provider capitation payments to different
extents. These are similar to arrangements introduced by the recent health reforms to give …

Objective: To test the hypothesis that capitation payment to physicians reduces the length of
physician-patient encounters but increases use of preventive and health counseling …

Health care utilization data, using measures such as rates of hospitalization, physician visits,
and specialty referrals, were collected for individual provider offices in an Individual Practice …

Background In California, it is common for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to
contract with large medical groups that are paid through capitation and are responsible for …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of payment methods on the costs of care in medical group
practices. DATA SOURCES: Eighty-six clinics providing services for a Blue Cross managed …

The May 15, 1991, JAMAtheme issue presented 14 different proposals for reforming the US
medical care system. Though these proposals varied widely, they encompassed only three …

Prologue: The issue that troubles analysts more than any other when the prospect of a
Medicare physician fee schedule is discussed is its likely inability to control increases in the …

Do financial incentives used by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to restrain the
use of health care resources represent a conflict of interest between physicians' concern …