fee-for-service ['fi:fә'sә:vis]
n.
(一次一付的)医疗费
- "Basic fee-for-service practice doesn't advance medicine," says Dr. Gill.
- When Ireland switched from fee-for-service to a fixed annual contract for each patient on the doctor's register, doctors' consultation rates fell by a fifth.
- Although some HMOs make more vigorous efforts at preventive medicine than do fee-for-service providers, there is no evidence that such efforts have had an appreciable impact on costs.
- To begin with, the annual rate of rise in HMO costs has been indistinguishable from that in the fee-for-service sector.
- The committee said FDA should: -Require public disclosure of any financial arrangements outside of fee-for-service contracts between applicants for approval of generic drugs and testing laboratories.
- When the prostate video program was installed in a practice in Iowa where doctors were often paid on a fee-for-service basis, few patients were urged to watch it.
- Prudential and its client companies paid a total of $5.5 million for procedures that would have cost $7.2 million on a "retail" or fee-for-service basis, Dr. Dragalin said.
- Immunex also is screening on a fee-for-service basis, but it will get royalties as well if it identifies a Kodak compound that is eventually developed as a drug.