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Approaches to capitation and risk adjustment in health care
— an international survey | | Author(s) | Nigel Rice, Peter Smith |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Health Economics, University of York |
| Publisher | University of York, York, 1999 |
| Pages | 88 pp |
| Source | The Publication Office, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York YO10 5DD. |
| Keywords | Health services ; Grant allocation ; Comparison ; International. |
| Annotation | A capitation can be defined as the amount of health service funds to be assigned to a person for the service in question, for the time period in question, subject to any national budget constraints. Capitations are usually varied according to an individual's personal and social characteristics, using a process known as risk adjustment. This paper reports the results of a survey of current risk adjustment (or capitation) methods in health care finance in nineteen developed countries. It was commissioned by the NHS Executive as part of a review of the formula used for allocating finance to local areas in England to be carried out under the auspices of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA). The report is in two parts: the first discusses general themes underlying capitation, while the second describes specific schemes in operation in 19 countries. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000218203 B |
| Classmark | L: QCG: 48: 72 |
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