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The effect of capitated financing on mental health services for children and youth: the Colorado experience

Author(s) -

Ralph Catalano,

Anne M. Libby,

Lonnie R. Snowden,

Alison Evans Cuellar

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.90.12.1861

Subject(s) - capitation , medicaid , mental health , incentive , business , capitation fee , fee for service , service (business) , finance , public health , medicine , health care , psychiatry , economic growth , economics , nursing , payment , marketing , microeconomics

This study tested 2 propositions concerning the effect of capitated financing on mental health services for Medicaid-eligible children and youth in Colorado. The first is that capitation reduces costs. The second is that shifting providers from fee-for-service to capitated financing will increase their efforts to prevent illness.

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