Usually means: Fixed payment per patient served.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitation: Merriam-Webster
  2. capitation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capitation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capitation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capitation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capitation, capitation: Wordnik
  7. capitation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capitation: Wiktionary
  9. capitation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. capitation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. capitation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. capitation: Dictionary.com
  13. Capitation (healthcare), Capitation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Capitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. capitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. capitation: Rhymezone
  17. Capitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. capitation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. capitation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. capitation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. capitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. capitation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. capitation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. CAPITATION: Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. capitation: Glossary of research economics
  5. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. capitation: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Capitation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Capitation: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. capitation: Medical dictionary
  7. Capitation: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. capitation: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Capitation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (capitation)

▸ noun:  Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
▸ noun:  A head tax.
▸ noun:  A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
▸ noun:  (India, euphemistic) A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.

Similar:
head count, headcount, counting, connumeration, capping, count-off, census, numeration, calculation, recountal, more...

Opposite:
fee-for-service, pay-per-procedure, pay-per-visit

Types:
head tax, poll tax, proportional tax, flat tax, consumption tax, value-added tax, more...

Phrases:
capitation tax, Capitation fee, capitation grant, more...

Adjectives:
global, full, primary, risk, partial, roman, annual, direct, total, adjusted, monthly

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Similar:
head count, headcount, counting, connumeration, capping, count-off, census, numeration, calculation, recountal, more...

Opposite:
fee-for-service, pay-per-procedure, pay-per-visit

Types:
head tax, poll tax, proportional tax, flat tax, consumption tax, value-added tax, more...

Phrases:
capitation tax, Capitation fee, capitation grant, more...

Adjectives:
global, full, primary, risk, partial, roman, annual, direct, total, adjusted, monthly



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