Objective: To describe the structure and range of utilization management methods initiated
by physicians in response to capitation. Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire. Setting: A …

Capitation-based reimbursement significantly influences the practice of medicine. As
physicians, we need to assure that payment models do not jeopardize the care we provide …

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 …

Little is known about physicians' exposure to managed care techniques that affect clinical
practice. In 1995, we conducted a survey of 2,003 US physicians asking them about their …

OBJECTIVE: To compare specialist and primary care physician participation in California's
Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care programs. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey …

Capitation and decapitation have nothing to do with each other, but you could hardly tell the
difference when observing the intense debate over the value and risks of capitation in health …

Context.—Managed care and capitation have placed new responsibilities on primary care
physicians, including formally acting as" gatekeepers" for specialty services and tests …

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 …

Previous studies of the impact of varying reimbursement incentives on physician behavior
have not explored the simultaneous implications for patients' health outcomes. Using a …