The impact of reimbursement systems on equity in access and quality of primary care: A systematic literature review

Table 1 Summary of study results comparing capitation to fee-for-service in regards to socioeconomic or racial inequity in admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, access to primary care and patient satisfaction

	Fee-for-service	Capitation
Ambulatory care sensitive admissions	Reference	0/+
Access to primary care	Reference	+
Patient satisfaction	Reference (non-capitation)	0/-

“0” indicates no difference in inequity, “-“ indicates greater inequity, and “+” indicates lesser inequity. “0/+” and “0/-“ indicate that results were mixed depending on outcome and/or socioeconomic or ethnic/racial group. Values from fee-for-service was used as the reference to which values from capitation was compared

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