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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A health care arrangement in which patients pay an enrollment fee in order to receive care at a medical practice.
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More than 1 in 5 wealthy people pay an extra fee for direct access to their doctor, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. For low and middle income people, the rates are less than half that.
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January 14, 2020