Despite many proposals to shift medical payment structures away from the traditional fee-for-service, other methods of payment such as capitation have actually been decreasing since the 1990s, according to a recent paper published in Health Affairs.
As of 2013, approximately 94.7% of outpatient visits to doctors were paid through the traditional fee-for-service framework, according to Samuel Zuvekas, PhD, and Joel Cohen, PhD, of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), who used data from 1996 to 2013 taken from the annual Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
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