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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Charging a fee for each service performed.
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Examples
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Even up to the 1970s, most Americans still had indemnity plans also called fee-for-service plans.
YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006
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Even up to the 1970s, most Americans still had indemnity plans also called fee-for-service plans.
YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006
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Instead of getting paid every time they do something - a venerable system called fee-for-service that encourages them to provide more and more services - they're paid a fixed amount each month for each patient.
News 2012
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Currently most doctors in Canada are paid through what's called a fee-for-service model.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed HELEN BRANSWELL 2011
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Instead of getting paid every time they do something - a venerable system called fee-for-service that encourages them to provide more and more services - they're paid a fixed amount each month for each patient.
News 2012
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One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid's bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system.
Robert Reich: The Seven Biggest Economic Lies Robert Reich 2011
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Under Ryan's plan, Medicare would no longer be a fee-for-service program in which government pays providers for most of the cost of seniors' medical expenses.
Jonathan Weiler: Republicans, Medicare and the Golden Rule Jonathan Weiler 2011
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Under Ryan's plan, Medicare would no longer be a fee-for-service program in which government pays providers for most of the cost of seniors' medical expenses.
Jonathan Weiler: Republicans, Medicare and the Golden Rule Jonathan Weiler 2011
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One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid's bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system.
Robert Reich: The Seven Biggest Economic Lies Robert Reich 2011
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One of the best ways of slowing these costs is to use Medicare and Medicaid's bargaining power over drug companies and hospitals to reduce costs, and to move from a fee-for-service system to a fee-for-healthy outcomes system.
Robert Reich: The Seven Biggest Economic Lies Robert Reich 2011
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