title: Applying these sound business tenets to capitation management keeps your bottom line healthy.
abstract: One consultant who's seen it all says most failed IPAs went under because they accepted capitation rates they knew would not cover their costs in the expectation that they could live on cash flow or make up the shortfall from withholds, hospital surpluses, or drug surpluses. Here's how to avoid the same mistakes.
mesh_terms: D002204:Capitation Fee; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D007193:Independent Practice Associations / Q000191:economics*; D017008:Negotiating; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States