eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Behavioural Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Accounting and Transport 2014-05-25 2 2 41 46 10.12691/jbe-2-2-2 JBE2014222 article Micheal Kofi Boachie mkboachie@gmail.com 1 Department of Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Providing cost-effective quality healthcare services have been of increasing interest to purchasers, providers, and patients in recent years, especially, for low - income economies. Recent discussions have focused on provider payment methods and how to restrict needless demand for healthcare services. The reason is that providers, patients, or payers face different kinds of incentives for efficiency, quality, and usage of healthcare services produced by payment methods. This paper presents a review of literature on healthcare provider payment mechanisms to enable purchasers and providers play a win-win game to protect patients. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbe/2/2/2/jbe-2-2-2.pdf capitation fee-for-service healthcare providers costing per-diems