…health care providers. The risk is shifted by establishing a fee to pay providers a “set fee” per patient per year (usually called “capitation”). We discuss capitation and the dangers…

…year (usually called “capitation”). This is done rather than a fee for each service providers render (known as “fee-for-service”), or by tying provider payment to the profits and losses of…

…favors experiments that could improve the quality of medical care and hold down costs. AB: Kip Sullivan; “’value-based payment‘ emerged in the 2000s as the label for all methods of…

…a solution for that, which we label the “MA Money Machine6,” the next major component of the distorted MA Marketplace. How The “MA Money Machine” Works Given the dollar magnitude,…