Fee-for-service plan

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In health care economics, a fee-for-service plan is a "method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used."^[1][2]

References

1. ↑ Anonymous, (2009) Fee-for-service plan (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
2. ↑ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. (1976). A discursive dictionary of health care / prepared by the staff for the use of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. LCC RA423 .U54. LCCN 76-046