How to Use fee-for-service in a Sentence

fee-for-service

noun

• Most doctors are paid through a fee-for-service (pay-for-volume) model.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• In the fee-for-service model, foot traffic matters more than ever.
  — Owen Tripp, STAT, 21 May 2024
• Clients can pay out of pocket using a flat-rate service charge, fee-for-service or monthly stipend model.
  — Seun Mauton Ajoseh, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025
• Look no further than the city’s current transition to fee-for-service trash pickup.
  — Michael Zucchet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
• Perverse incentives Suppose you were accused of a crime and your lawyer was paid by fee-for-service.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Of course, telehealth has taken off among more conventional fee-for-service practices, too.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Does the system keep fee-for-service, and if so, what stops the overutilization and the starvation of primary care?
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• Today’s fee-for-service system pays clinicians for volume, not value.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• If Arkansas switches to fee-for-service, Mann said, there wouldn't be any premium tax.
  — Nathan Ansell, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2026
• But moving from fee-for-service to capitation would require major structural change.
  — Robert Pearl, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
• The current and more popular fee-for-service system places the focus is on what is observed clinically.
  — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• To meet the healthcare needs of most its patients, Geisinger relies on community doctors who are paid on a fee-for-service basis.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The biggest obstacle to this vision is the fee-for-service approach Medicare and private insurers use to pay doctors.
  — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• The upshot, though, is that Cardinal operates on a fee-for-service model that relies on volume — taking a small fee for every unit moved.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
• The paper assumes that providers are paid on a fee-for-service basis, which data on actual paymentssupports as still the dominant payment structure.
  — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• However, despite the clear drawbacks of the fee-for-service model and the benefits of capitation, the transition has been slow.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• Mann said department staff are examining fee-for-service Medicaid and managed care models.
  — Nathan Ansell, Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2026
• Unlike the fee-for-service model used by most US health care providers, Kaiser patients pay dues to the company in exchange for access to care.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• Freedom to create entirely new clinical workflows that fee-for-service economics rarely support.
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Common small business examples using a fee-for-service model include consulting, coaching or freelance work.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
• At his fee-for-service clinic in Orlando, Lee writes peptide prescriptions for patients who want to use the substances with physician oversight.
  — Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
• The new fee-for-service codes will better accommodate more or fewer visits, either in person or remotely, based on individual needs.
  — Kff Health News, Oc Register, 5 June 2026
• Yet, the delay did have real financial consequences that highlight the absurd and deeply flawed nature of our healthcare system, which largely still operates on a fee-for-service model.
  — Renee Hsia, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
• Current fee-for-service payment systems incentivize unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures rather than better health outcomes.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Under fee-for-service models, the government must reimburse providers for services regardless of their clinical necessity.
  — Sejal Hathi, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
• The prevailing dental economic model based on fee-for-service creates an environment of dental overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
• This will eventually require that China move away from its overreliance on a fee-for-service payment method, which is often associated with escalating health-care costs.
  — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
• For years, physicians operating under the traditional fee-for-service model have sustained their incomes by performing more procedures and charging higher fees.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
• The sweeping changes, if passed by the state legislature, would consolidate all Medicaid billing under a fee-for-service model through which the state directly pays providers for services rendered.
  — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
• Instead, their coverage would revert to traditional Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023