4 Oct 2001 17:25 AR AR143-07-LEE.tex AR143-07-LEE.SGM ARv2(2001/05/10) P1: GJC. INFLUENCES ON AVIATION EMISSIONS 187. purchase prices (I) for aircraft have increased, indicating a willingness on the part. of airlines to incur higher capital costs for lower operating costs.
Formally defined, capitation is a flat periodic payment per enrollee to a healthcare provider; it is the sole. reimbursement for providing services to a defined population. The word capitation is derived from the term. per capita, which means per person.
And in states where HMOs did have the sophistication to go at-risk on a senior population and clearly wanted to extend the marketplace, wide variations in capitation premiums did not allow it. That created huge service area holes where the HMOs deemed reimbursements inadequate to start senior programs.