Table 1.

Primary Care Models in Ontario

Primary Care Model Types	Core Features
Traditional fee-for-servicea	No enrolment of patients. Fee-for-service payment for services rendered
Enhanced fee-for-servicea	Enrolment of patients encouraged. Fee-for-service payment for services rendered. Incentives and bonuses (including. For achieving cancer screening targets) for enrolled patients. Escalating cancer screening bonuses for achieving set targets start if at least 60% of enrolled eligible women up-to-date on cervical screening, if at least 55% of enrolled eligible women up-to-date on breast screening, or if at least 15% of enrolled eligible adults up-to-date on colorectal screening.
Capitation-based	Enrolment of patients required. Capitation payment covering a defined basket of services, with 15% of the usual fee-for-service when these services are rendered and 100% fee-for-service for services outside the basket. Incentives and bonuses (including for achieving cancer screening targets as above) for enrolled patients
Capitation-based team model	As above, including funding to create interdisciplinary teams
Community health centres	Interdisciplinary teams, serve harder-to-reach populations, salaried payment

^aModels of interest in this study