fee-for-service

American  

[fee-fer-sur-vis] / ˈfi fərˈsɜr vɪs /

adjective

1. pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in healthcare, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice.

   fee-for-service medicine.

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Example Sentences

Traditional Medicare fee-for-service has also begun requiring prior authorization for procedures found to be susceptible to abuse, such as botox injections.

From The Wall Street Journal

Medicare Advantage is the privately run, federally funded alternative to traditional, fee-for-service Medicare run by the government.

From Barron's

Prescription trends also differed by medication type among all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries:

From Science Daily

Adoption even at high-tech medical centers could be slow, particularly because of the conflicting financial incentives in the U.S. fee-for-service healthcare model.

From MarketWatch

Those who continue with a fee-for-service model have had to squeeze more patients into their workday, limiting the time they can spend with each patient.

From Barron's