What do systematic reviews say?

Capitation remuneration vs Fee-for-service remuneration

Capitation remuneration showed no clear difference in healthcare costs: mean expenditure in GBP per 0- to 15-year-old… compared with fee-for-service remuneration (low certainty).

• The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes

  1 year · Scottish community
  MD 1.52
  1 study · 276414 participants
  Low
• The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes

  1 year · Northern urban community
  MD 4.22
  1 study · 276414 participants
  Low
• The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes

  1 year · Commuter suburb community
  MD 6.18
  1 study · 276414 participants
  Low

Fee‐for‐service (FFS) vs no intervention or control intervention (control)

• The effect of different methods of remuneration on the behaviour of primary care dentists 2013 · Cochrane All outcomes

  18 months
  ICER 0.10
  1 study · 68 participants
  Very low