Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poll tax.
- noun A payment or fee of a fixed amount per person, such as one remitted at regular intervals to a medical provider by a managed care organization for an enrolled patient.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Numeration by the head; a numbering of persons, as the inhabitants of a city.
- noun A tax or imposition upon each head or person; a poll-tax. Also called a capitation-tax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A numbering of heads or individuals.
- noun A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Performing a
headcount ; the counting of people. - noun A
poll tax . - noun A system of
remuneration for providers of health care, in which providersenroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for eachenrollee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Anyway, a capitation is unconstitutional if it is not apportioned among the states according to the census.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 13 States File Suit Against Health Care Reform 2010
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Sara says: he hopes to see a revolution in capitation jurisprudence.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation 2010
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What makes this tax a poll tax/capitation is that it is a per head tax on every person in the land ($750) which is then adjusted on income.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Chances Courts Would Strike Down the Individual Mandate 2010
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Primary-care physicians are increasingly interested in capitation arrangements, where they would be paid based on the number of people who register as clients for their services.
Till Debt Do Us Part 1996
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In those days, providers expected that they would eventually be paid by "capitation" -- receiving the same amount of money for each patient no matter how much care or what kind of care the patient needed.
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Her question was whether the health reform would pay doctors on a fee-for-service basis or whether there would be "capitation" - in which doctors are paid so much per patient regardless of how much care they provide.
Indybay newswire Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine 2009
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But it’s funny – when you give this to a (very conservative) tax prof, he hopes to see a revolution in capitation jurisprudence.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Health insurance mandate as a privacy right violation 2010
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For instance, he said, providers can share in more of the savings and can potentially get the money as monthly per-beneficiary payments, a format known as capitation.
Health-Care Initiative Draws Fire Anna Wilde Mathews 2011
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But a capitation could be apportioned by population quite easily; if it applied to every person (citizen or not, all levels of income) with no exceptions, it would in fact by definition already be apportioned.
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Mark N.: But a capitation could be apportioned by population quite easily; if it applied to every person (citizen or not, all levels of income) with no exceptions, it would in fact by definition already be apportioned.
jwjarvis commented on the word capitation
HMOs. When a physician is a paid a contracted rate per member assigned.
June 14, 2016