Adjective : fee-for-service medicine.    From Dictionary.com. 

It's called fee-for-service, and it means just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case for Killing Granny] Reference

A decade ago, most health insurance was fee-for-service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backlash Against Hmos] Reference

NISSEN: The Cleveland Clinic is not a fee-for-service model.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2009] Reference

You can join an HMO, you can have a fee-for-service practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidents Remarks To The Citizens Of Troy Nc] Reference

A fee-for-service program should be developed to foster this approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Monograph 7 On Regulatory Systems Part A] Reference

Seniors who fear change can keep their fee-for-service coverage as it is now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Fine Print] Reference

And even under fee-for-service, insurers wouldn't cover many experimental treatments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Backlash Against Hmos] Reference

The use of physician services has soared under Medicare's fee-for-service arrangements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicare reform illusion] Reference

Yet, the majority of dually eligible beneficiaries choose to remain in fee-for-service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Plan To Modernize And Strengthen Medicare] Reference

If your employer offers an old-fashioned fee-for-service indemnity plan, consider switching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware Your Hmo] Reference

We still have a fee-for-service reimbursement system here like every other state in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2009] Reference

They ought to be able to choose their own health care plan, including fee-for-service plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2003] Reference

You are still eligible for the traditional fee-for-service program and for Medigap policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Hmo Announcement] Reference

We still have a fee-for-service reimbursement system here, like every other state in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference

Want a system that preserves Patient choice of physicians and permits a fee-for-service option.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Hard Sell] Reference

Or it might be strict fee-for-service medicine at the election of the person with the insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At John Hopkins] Reference

ARTICLE: "What most of us call fee-for-service (choose your own doctor) will be difficult to buy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis Of New Republic Article On Health Care Reform] Reference

And it's a part of a big increase broadly in what you might think of as fee-for-service procedures.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference

Beneficiaries who return to original fee-for-service Medicare may seek individual Medigap policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Plan To Modernize And Strengthen Medicare] Reference

Some new benefit packages will be traditional fee-for-service, others may be networks run by doctors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Unveils Health Care Plan - September 5, 2000] Reference

Would it drive up the price of original, fee-for-service Medicare, forcing even unwilling seniors into HMOs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Medicare Really Needs] Reference

In fact, in 1988, 89% of employers offered fee-for-service plans but, by 1993, this number had dropped to 65%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysis Of New Republic Article On Health Care Reform] Reference

The fundamental problem is that Medicare's dominant fee-for-service structure rewards volume, not quality or value.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicare reform illusion] Reference

And it would require stronger measures to dismantle a fee-for-service delivery system that rewards more, not better, care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Real on Health Costs] Reference

But Soledad, for the people who are homeless that he is treating, we know that this is a fee-for-service health care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009] Reference

And it becomes competitive, and the fee-for-service plans would then enable the patient to have the direct access to the doc.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush Holds Forum on Health Care in Orlando, Florida - September 12, 2000] Reference

It includes a phased-in reduction in HMO payment rates from the current 95 percent of fee-for-service payments to 90 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mccurry Raines Shalala Briefing] Reference

Unless we change the fee-for-service system, costs will remain hard to control because providers are paid more for doing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cost-Control Mirage] Reference

Managed care's absolute costs may be lower than those of fee-for-service medicine, but annual rates of increase may be similar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Serious] Reference

LOSERSMedical specialists: These doctors will see incomes fall as much fee-for-service medicine is replaced by fixed contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down To Brass Tacks] Reference

Beneficiaries opting to stay in the traditional fee-for-service program would be able to do so without an increase in premiums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Plan To Modernize And Strengthen Medicare] Reference

The new system would offer consumers at least three different health-delivery plans, including HMOs and fee-for-service medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clinton Solution] Reference

Just a few years ago, almost every employer offered a fee-for-service plan, where you pick your own doctors and the company helps pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Care Report Cards] Reference

It already dominates the under-65 population, but about 90 percent of Medicare recipients still see doctors on a fee-for-service basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing Up To Reality] Reference

Under the Clinton proposal every American will choose one of three basic kinds of health plan -- HMO, fee-for-service or a combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthtown, U.S.A.] Reference

Aspects of the Cooper plan would likely drive more Americans into HMOs than would Clinton's plan. which retains a fee-for-service option.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tempted By 'Clinton Lite'? Think Again.] Reference

(Wealthier people may be paying more in general under the Gingrich plan, but there will be no additional hike if they want to keep fee-for-service.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Fine Print] Reference