News than paying individually for each service, while doctors don't have to chase patients
for money each time they provide an uninsured service. The precise services that are …

Fee-for-service doesn't work well for an aging population with chronic conditions, according
to an expert panel tasked by the Alberta government to make recommendations on …

The move to a value-based payment system was supposed to end perverse incentives that
pay doctors more for delivering often unnecessary services. But things are changing slowly …

Some managed care plans and health maintenance organizations are paying physicians
fees lower than Medicare's rates, according to a study by Medirisk Inc. In areas with an …

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INTRODUCTION When patients pay for care out-of-pocket, physicians must balance their
professional obligations to serve with the commercial demands of medical practice …

Even if user charges do not offer substantial revenue streams, surely they will deter people
from the trivial and unnecessary use of scarce health care resources. Well, why should they …

Medicare's method of payment to physicians has been a thorny problem since the program
began more than 40 years ago. Medicare's initial method for setting fees mimicked the …

A special commission has proposed that Massachusetts effectively end fee-for-service
medicine, the predominant form of payment for health care services, and replace it with a …

In March 2012, the Society of General Internal Medicine convened the National Commission
on Physician Payment Reform to recommend forms of payment that would maximize good …