fee-for-service
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Note: Excludes providers treating fewer than 11 fee-for-service Medicaid patients in 2023 and beneficiaries covered by Medicaid managed-care plans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Medicare Advantage is the privately run, federally funded alternative to traditional, fee-for-service Medicare run by the government.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
Prescription trends also differed by medication type among all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries:
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
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 • Nov. 11, 2025
Our health care system currently values fee-for-service: We reward procedures, tests, and interventions.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025
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