In fact, he suggests that its problems forced it to look in a more systematic way than other institutions at its costs – hence the decision to charge lower and differentiated fees – and at improving completion rates, which have been as low as 50-60%.
These testing procedures and corresponding differentiated fees may serve as disincentives to demand for services for higher income users and also remove barriers for low-income older adults.
This uniform capitation payment system involves signing a three-year contract with the caregiver to pay a risk-differentiated fee and to maintain an individually designed self-care plan in exchange for receiving all necessary basic dental care; a model corresponding to a dental insurance policy.
The third and most difficult challenge is this: differentiated tuition fees, whereby students from poorer families pay nothing and those from wealthy backgrounds pay perhaps £10,000 a year or a bit more.
At the same time, the remuneration system for GPs was changed to a system with a basic capitation fee, differentiated by age and deprivation area and supplemented by a fee-for-service system for each consultation [ 16, 71].
At the same time, the remuneration system for GPs was changed to a basic capitation fee, differentiated by age and deprivation area and supplemented by a fee-for-service system for each consultation.
In 2000 and 2005 the capitation fee was differentiated by the patient's age [see Additional file 1].
These capitation fees are sometimes differentiated according to certain criteria such as age or social deprivation.
The recent Swedish social policy changes, for example, include changes in the tax system benefitting those in employment; differentiated unemployment insurance with higher fees leading to lower enrolment; and the introduction of a maximum period for receiving sickness benefit.
Doctors, who know each patient's illness severity, select the patients to be treated by the high-tech facility, and receive from public authorities some fee-for-service payment that is differentiated according to the low- or high-tech treatment used for curing their patients.
But America's state-run universities, which have traditionally kept their fees low and stable, might well try a differentiated pricing scheme as they raise cash to compete academically with their private counterparts.
