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Fee-for-Service Plans

"Fee-for-Service Plans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (From Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fee-for-Service Plans" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Fee-for-Service Plans" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 391 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 39 publications in 2017
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