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Fee-for-Service Plans
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Definition of 'Fee-for-Service Plans'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) |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007.
4 Nov 2009 
The prevalence of tobacco use among adults in the United States has been reduced by half since the 1960s. Despite this progress, low-income populations, such as Medicaid enrollees, continue to smoke at substantially higher rates than the general ... Read more...
Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma.
30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Medical Home is an evolving concept of patient-centered care yet little information is available on its effect on health care expenditures for children. OBJECTIVES: To quantify differences in patterns of care and costs to the North ... Read more...
29 Sep 2009 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed to eliminate payments for the Inpatient and Outpatient Consultation codes beginning on 1 January 2010. The intent appears to be to promote an increase in the supply of primary ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Fee-for-Service Plans'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007. 4 Nov 2009
- Enhancing the medical homes model for children with asthma. 30 Oct 2009
- Devaluing a specialty: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposal to eliminate consultation codes. 29 Sep 2009
- Doctors as the key to health care reform.
22 Sep 2009 - Navigating health care reform. 30 Aug 2009
- [Patient needs for consultation with pharmacists] 30 Aug 2009
- Return to sender hospital readmission after percutaneous coronary intervention. 30 Aug 2009
- All-cause readmission and repeat revascularization after percutaneous coronary intervention in a cohort of medicare patients. 30 Aug 2009
- Beware of three big health-care myths. 29 Aug 2009
- Building a bridge from fragmentation to accountability--the Prometheus Payment model. 17 Aug 2009
- The shifting mission of health care delivery organizations. 4 Aug 2009
- Accuracy of clinical coding in ENT day surgery. 30 Jul 2009
- Infant health outcomes associated with voluntary health care model change in a choice-based Medicaid system. 30 Jul 2009
- The end of fee-for-service medicine? Proposals for payment reform in Massachusetts. 27 Jul 2009
- Adventures in reimbursement. Mass. eyes global payment solution to end fee-for-service, but some take 'been there, done that' stance to payment strategy. 25 Jul 2009
- [Conversation with Federal Health Administrator Ulla Schmidt. Physician payment will increase by about 4 billion (interview by Wolfgang van den Bergh and Bulent Erdogan)] 21 Jul 2009
- Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. 14 Jul 2009
- Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. 14 Jul 2009
- Rehospitalizations among patients in the Medicare fee-for-service program. 14 Jul 2009
- Job satisfaction of dental practitioners before and after a change in incentives and governance: a longitudinal study. 8 Jul 2009
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Technical information about 'Fee-for-Service Plans'
Definition: 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)
Descriptor UI: D018588
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Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: N03.219.442.195; N03.219.521.710.305.090; N04.452.758.745.225;
Online Note: use FEES, MEDICAL to search FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL 1982-94
History Note: 95; FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL was see FEES, MEDICAL 1982-94