Associations to the word «Capitation»

Wiktionary

CAPITATION, noun. Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
CAPITATION, noun. A poll tax.
CAPITATION, 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.

Dictionary definition

CAPITATION, noun. A tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope