How to Use fee-for-service in a Sentence

fee-for-service

noun

• In the fee-for-service model, foot traffic matters more than ever.
  — Owen Tripp, STAT, 21 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Today, 60% of payments to physicians remain fee-for-service.
  — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
• Notably, like many others that seek to evaluate health care, U.S. News uses publicly available Medicare fee-for-service claims that lag the present by 18 months or more.
  — Brian Stein and Bala Hota, STAT, 24 Aug. 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 current and more popular fee-for-service system places the focus is on what is observed clinically.
  — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Of course, telehealth has taken off among more conventional fee-for-service practices, too.
  — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The state has been able to keep costs down by enrolling up to 80% of the Medicaid population in a private plan and 20% in traditional Medicaid fee-for-service, Thompson said.
  — Alander Rocha, al, 11 Apr. 2023
• Managed care vs fee-for-service Medicaid benefits can be offered by fee-for-service (FFS), managed care or both.
  — Alander Rocha, al, 11 Apr. 2023
• The new rule brings sweeping changes to a bevy of Medicaid programs throughout the country, including fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems.
  — Timmy Broderick, STAT, 3 May 2024
• 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
• Today, the widespread prevalence of chronic diseases in 6 out of 10 Americans underlines the limitations of the fee-for-service (FFS) model.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Today’s fee-for-service system pays clinicians for volume, not value.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Unlike a fee-for-service health care model, in which doctors and other providers are paid for each service performed, Kaiser Permanente patients or their employers pay a membership fee to access Kaiser Permanente’s wide range of health care services.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
• These challenges, coupled with the impacts of fee-for-service reimbursement models and staffing mandates, contribute to poor patient outcomes and create a cycle that seems increasingly difficult to break.
  — Dave Wessinger, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• Common small business examples using a fee-for-service model include consulting, coaching or freelance work.
  — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 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
• Even health care, an anchor of the postindustrial economy, is replete with an especially pernicious sort of pointless work, as the most basic consideration of the incentive structure of fee-for-service medicine would lead one to expect.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 1 May 2023
• Most studies show that quality metrics (such as proportion of patients getting their appropriate breast and colon cancer screening tests) are better in ACOs than in traditional fee-for-service models.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 20 June 2023
• 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
• Anand Parekh, chief medical adviser for the Bipartisan Policy Center, pointed to the shortage in primary care physicians and the fee-for-service health care model as major hurdles for the future of chronic disease prevention and management.
  — Katherine MacPhail, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
• By investing in early intervention and social service programs, the group has reduced hospital admissions for its members by 20 percent compared with its fee-for-service counterparts.
  — Sejal Hathi, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
• 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
• Current fee-for-service payment systems incentivize unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures rather than better health outcomes.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• Insurers compete for patients by offering benefits, including vision and dental care that aren’t available in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023