Capitation funding in the public sector

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 217-257

  Smith, Peter C ^a   Rice, Nigel ^b   Carr Hill, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Health care finance; Multilevel modelling; Public expenditure; Resource allocation; Small area analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649762     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00200     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Ash, A., Porell, F., Gruenberg, L., Sawitz, E. and Beiser, A. (1989) Adjusting Medicare payments using prior utilization data. Hlth Care Finan. Rev., 10, no. 4, 17-29.
2. Association of County Councils (1981) Rate Support Grant (England) 1981-82. London: Association of County Councils.
3. -(1990) Revenue Support Grant (England) 1990-91. London: Association of County Councils.
4. Audit Commission (1993) Passing the Bucks. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
5. Bartlett, W., Propper, C., Wilson, D. and Le Grand, J. (1994) Quasi-markets in the Welfare State. Bristol: School for Advanced Urban Studies.
6. Bebbington, A. C. and Davies, B. (1983) Equity and efficiency in the allocation of the personal social services. J. Socl Poly, 12, 309-329.
7. Beck, K. (1998) Competition under a regime of imperfect risk adjustment: the Swiss experience. Sozl Praventmed., 43, 7-8.
8. Bennett, R. J. (1982) Central Grants to Local Governments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Benzeval, M. and Judge, K. (1994) The determinants of hospital utilization - implications for resource-allocation in England. Hlth Econ., 3, 105-116.
10. Bramley, G. (1990) Equalization Grants and Local Expenditure Needs. Aldershot: Avebury.
11. Buckingham, K., Bebbington, A., Campbell, S., Dennis, C., Evans, G., Freeman, P., Martin, N. and Olver, L. (1996) Interim Needs Indicators for Community Health Services. Canterbury: Personal Social Services Research Unit.
12. Carr-Hill, R. A., Dixon, P., Mannion, R., Rice, N., Rudat, K., Sinclair, R. and Smith, P. (1997) A model of the determinants of expenditure on children's personal social services. Occasional Paper. Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York.
13. Carr-Hill, R., Hardman, G., Martin, S., Peacock, S., Sheldon, T. and Smith, P. (1994) A formula for distributing NHS revenues based on small area use of hospital beds. Occasional Paper. Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York.
14. Carr-Hill, R. and Rice, N. (1998) Is enumeration district level an improvement on ward level analysis in studies of deprivation and health? J. Epidem. Commty Hlth, 49, suppl. 2, S28-S29.
15. Carr-Hill, R., Rice, N. and Smith, P. (1999) The determinants of expenditure on children's personal social services. Br. J. Socl Wrk, 29, 679-706.
16. -(2000) Towards locally based resource allocation in the NHS. In Reforming Markets in Health Care - an Economic Perspective (ed. P. Smith). Buckingham: Open University Press.
17. Davidson, R. and MacKinnon, J. G. (1993) Estimation and Inference in Econometrics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
18. Department of the Environment (1995) Standard Spending Assessments: Guide to Methodology 1995/96. London: Department of the Environment.
19. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1999) Standard Spending Assessment Specification of Indicators for 1999/2000. London: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
20. Department of Health and Social Security (1976) Sharing Resources for Health in England: Report of the Resource Allocation Working Party. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
21. Derbyshire, M. E. (1987) Statistical rationale for grant-related expenditure assessment (GREA) concerning personal social services (with discussion). J. R. Statist. Soc. A, 150, 309-333.
22. Diderichsen, F., Varde, E. and Whitehead, M. (1997) Resource allocation to health authorities: the quest for an equitable formula in Britain and Sweden. Br. Med. J., 315, 875-878.
23. Duncan, A. and Smith, P. (1995) Modelling local government budgetary choices under expenditure limitation. Fisc. Stud., 16, no. 4, 95-110.
24. Flowerdew, R., Francis, B. and Lucas, S. (1994) The Standard Spending Assessment as a measure of spending needs in nonmetropolitan districts. Environ. Planng C, 12, no. 1, 1-14.
25. Glennerster, H., Hills, J. and Travers, T. (2000) Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How Does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Godfrey, L. (1988) Misspecification Tests in Econometrics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
27. Goldstein, H. (1994) The use of regression analysis for resource allocation by central government. Environ. Planng C, 12, no. 1, 15-22.
28. -(1995) Multilevel Statistical Models, 2nd edn. London: Arnold.
29. Greene, W. H. (1993) Econometric Analysis, 2nd edn. New York: Macmillan.
30. Hale, R. and Travers, T. (1993) £36 Billion and Rising?: a Study of Standard Spending Assessments (SSAs). London: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting.
31. Hall, J., Preston, I. and Smith, S. (1996) Alternatives to Current Regression Methods in the Calculation of Standard Spending Assessments. London: Institute for Fiscal Studies.
32. Hausman, J. A. (1978) Specification tests in econometrics. Econometrics, 46, 1251-1271.
33. Heckman, J. J. and Robb, R. (1985) Alternative methods for estimating the impact of interventions: an overview. J. Econometr., 30, 239-267.
34. House of Commons Environment Committee (1994) Standard Spending Assessments. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
35. House of Commons Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee (1999) Local Government Finance. London: Stationery Office.
36. House of Commons Health Committee (1995) Public Expenditure/Resource Allocation: Minutes of Evidence 22 June 1995. London: Stationery Office.
37. Mannion, R. and Smith, P. (1997) How providers are chosen in the mixed economy of community care. Finan. Account. Mangmnt, 13, 243-260.
38. Martin, S., Rice, N. and Smith, P. (1998) Risk and the general practitioner budget holder. Socl Sci. Med., 47, 1547-1554.
39. McCarthy, T., Davies, K., Gaisford, J. and Hoffmeyer, U. (1995) Risk-adjustment and Its Implications for Efficiency and Equity in Health Care Systems. Basle: Pharmaceutical Partners for Better Healthcare.
40. National Foster Care Association (1998) Survey of Allowances - June 1998. London: National Foster Care Association.
41. National Health Service Executive (1998) 1999/2000 Health Authority Revenue Cash Limits Exposition Book. Leeds: National Health Service Executive.
42. Peacock, S. and Smith, P. (1995) The resource allocation consequences of the new NHS needs formula. In Public Expenditure/Resource Allocation: Minutes of Evidence 22 June 1995. London: Stationery Office.
43. Ramsey, J. B. (1969) Tests for specification errors in classical linear least-squares regression analysis. J. R. Statist. Soc. B, 31, 350-371.
44. Rasbash, J. and Woodhouse, G. (1995) MLn Command Reference. London: Institute of Education.
45. Revenue Grant Distribution Review Group (2000) Improving Grant Distribution to Local Authorities. London: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
46. Rice, N., Dixon, P., Lloyd, D. and Roberts, D. (2000) Derivation of a needs based capitation formula for allocating prescribing budgets. Occasional Paper. Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York.
47. Rice, N. and Smith, P. (1999) Approaches to capitation and risk adjustment in health care: an international survey. Occasional Paper. Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York.
48. Royston, G. H. D., Hurst, J. W., Lister, E. G. and Stewart, P. A. (1992) Modelling the use of health services by populations of small areas to inform the allocation of central resources to larger regions. Socecon. Planng Sci., 26, 169-180.
49. Scottish Executive Health Department (1999) Fair Shares for All: Report of the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive Health Department.
50. Scottish Office (1998) Grant Aided Expenditure 1998-99. Edinburgh: Scottish Office.
51. Sheldon, T. A. and Carr-Hill, R. (1992) Resource allocation by regression in the National Health Service: a critique of the Resource Allocation Working Party's review. J. R. Statist. Soc. A, 155, 403-420.
52. Shmueli, A., Shamai, N., Levi, Y. and Abraham, M. (1998) In search of a national capitation formula: the Israeli experience. In Governments and Health Systems: Implications of Different Involvements (eds D. Chinitz and J. Cohen). Chichester: Wiley.
53. Steel, D. G. and Holt, D. (1996) Analysing and adjusting aggregation effects: the ecological fallacy revisited. Int. Statist. Rev., 64, 39-60.
54. Steel, D. G., Holt, D. and Tranmer, M. (1996) Making unit-level inferences from aggregated data. Surv. Methodol., 22, 3-15.
55. Thomas, R. W. and Warren, E. S. (1997) Evaluating the role of regression methods in the determination of Standard Spending Assessments. Environ. Planng C, 15, 53-72.
56. Tranmer, M. and Steel, D. G. (1998) Using census data to investigate the causes of the ecological fallacy. Environ. Planng A, 30, 817-831.
57. Van Vliet, R. C. J. A. and Lamers, L. M. (1998) The high costs of death: should health plans get higher payments when members die? Med. Care, 36, 1451-1460.
58. Van Vliet, R. C. J. A. and Van de Ven, W. P. M. (1992) Towards a capitation formula for competing health insurers: an empirical analysis. Socl Sci. Med., 34, 1035-1048.
59. Wilson, A. G. (1974) Urban and Regional Models in Geography and Planning. Chichester: Wiley.
60. Ziekenfondsraad (1999) Budgettering Ziekenfondswet 1999. Amstelveen: Ziekenfondsraad.