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Abstract
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. (From Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
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- Fee for Service
- Fees for Service
- Fee for Service Plans
- Fee for Services
- Fee-for-Service Plan
- Fees for Services
- Plan, Fee-for-Service
- Plans, Fee-for-Service
- Service, Fee for
- Service, Fees for
- Services, Fee for
- Services, Fees for
- Fee-for-Service, Medical
- Reimbursement, Fee-for-Service
- Fee for Service, Medical
- Fee-for-Service Reimbursement
- Fee-for-Service Reimbursements
- Fee-for-Services, Medical
- Medical Fee-for-Service
- Medical Fee-for-Services
- Reimbursement, Fee for Service
- Reimbursements, Fee-for-Service
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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95; FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL was see FEES, MEDICAL 1982-94
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- Fees, Medical (1969-1994)
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- National Library of Medicine. Fee-for-Service Plans. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018588. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018588
- Fee-for-Service Plans. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70490506