During the 1998/99 fiscal year, fee-for-service physicians earned more than $8 billion for
providing over 240 million services, or an average of $33 per service. The Canadian Institute …

TORONTO-A separate amount of" upfront money" over and above the overall increase in
health insurance plan payments-needs to be allocated by the Ontario government to family …

Background: Although expenditures on health care are continually increasing and often said
to be unsustainable, few studies have examined these trends at the level of services …

There will always be those doctors who wishto be paid fee-for-service and those doctors
who wish to be paid per capitum or on salary or sessional. This is as it should be. All …

The United States will soon begin an important reform in its methods of physician payment.
In November 1989 Congress passed significant legislation to alter patterns of payment in …

Adjusted for differences in purchasing power and practice expenses, Canadian physician
fees are, on average, 59 percent of Medicare fees. The general perception that Medicare …

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has just released a series of average
payments per fee-for-service physician. These data, derived from its National Physician Data …

Canadian fee-for-service physicians are paid far less for medical procedures than their
American colleagues. Depending on the specialty, there can be a three-to nine-fold …

Abstract Although Canada and the United States have fundamentally different systems for
financing health care, there are many similarities between the two countries in their …

About 13% of physicians will be affected by thresholds announced recently by the Ontario
government, says Ontario Health Minister Jim Wilson. In July the province announced three …