Posted: March 24th, 2017

You are familiar with capitation as a payment methodology used in the healthcare industry.

You are familiar with capitation as a payment methodology used in the healthcare industry. Fullhealth is paid from the government on a per member, per month (PMPM) capitation payment for each Medicaid and Medicare enrollee. Fullhealth also pays some of its contracted physicians a capitation payment and pays others on a fee for service basis. The CFO has asked you to create a brief summary of information on capitation. Prepare the following information for the CFO s upcoming meeting to explain the effects that capitation had on the current budget: explanation of capitation challenges of working with capitation new trends in capitation payments over the last few years.Explain in detail in 500 to 700 words.