PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M. Korcok
TI  - Capitation begins to transform the face of American medicine
DP  - 1996 Mar 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 688--691
VI  - 154
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/5/688.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/5/688.full
SO  - CMAJ1996 Mar 01; 154
AB  - Canadian physicians only need look to the south to see that capitation can control not only their fees but also the amount of resources they use, the amount of care their patients can expect and the way doctors and patients relate to one another. In the US, capitation is rewarding doctors for doing less and penalizing them if they do too much. "Instead of a being cash source," says Dr. John Verhoff, a family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, "a patient visit is a cash drain." Milan Korcok looks at the ways capitation is changing medicine in the US.