From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcapitationcap‧i‧ta‧tion /ˌkæpɪˈteɪʃən/ noun [countable] PETa tax or payment of the same amount from each person
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capitation• The agency pays member plans a set fee, called a capitation, for each patient they sign up.• In the case study, the movement to a formula-based capitation system has had a profound managerial effect.• As no formula for capitation funding had been developed fundholders were given budgets on a historical basis.• The changes will require funding from INSET. capitation and staffing budgets.• A monthly capitation fee is paid to profit making companies.• Secondly, they retained 25 percent of capitation monies outside the formula system for discretionary allocations.• This represented a move away from the department head receiving capitation and simply spending it because it was there.• Some districts are gaining monies as a result of the change to capitation funding and others are losing. 