How to Use fee-for-service in a Sentence

fee-for-service

noun
  • In the fee-for-service model, foot traffic matters more than ever.
    — Owen Tripp, STAT, 21 May 2024
  • Clients can pay out of pocket using a flat-rate service charge, fee-for-service or monthly stipend model.
    — Seun Mauton Ajoseh, The Conversation, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Look no further than the city’s current transition to fee-for-service trash pickup.
    — Michael Zucchet, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Perverse incentives Suppose you were accused of a crime and your lawyer was paid by fee-for-service.
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Of course, telehealth has taken off among more conventional fee-for-service practices, too.
    — Sally Pipes, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Today’s fee-for-service system pays clinicians for volume, not value.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • But moving from fee-for-service to capitation would require major structural change.
    — Robert Pearl, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The current and more popular fee-for-service system places the focus is on what is observed clinically.
    — Ashley Ward, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
  • To meet the healthcare needs of most its patients, Geisinger relies on community doctors who are paid on a fee-for-service basis.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The biggest obstacle to this vision is the fee-for-service approach Medicare and private insurers use to pay doctors.
    — Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The paper assumes that providers are paid on a fee-for-service basis, which data on actual paymentssupports as still the dominant payment structure.
    — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • However, despite the clear drawbacks of the fee-for-service model and the benefits of capitation, the transition has been slow.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Unlike the fee-for-service model used by most US health care providers, Kaiser patients pay dues to the company in exchange for access to care.
    — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Freedom to create entirely new clinical workflows that fee-for-service economics rarely support.
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Common small business examples using a fee-for-service model include consulting, coaching or freelance work.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • At his fee-for-service clinic in Orlando, Lee writes peptide prescriptions for patients who want to use the substances with physician oversight.
    — Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The new fee-for-service codes will better accommodate more or fewer visits, either in person or remotely, based on individual needs.
    — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • Yet, the delay did have real financial consequences that highlight the absurd and deeply flawed nature of our healthcare system, which largely still operates on a fee-for-service model.
    — Renee Hsia, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Current fee-for-service payment systems incentivize unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures rather than better health outcomes.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Under fee-for-service models, the government must reimburse providers for services regardless of their clinical necessity.
    — Sejal Hathi, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2017
  • The prevailing dental economic model based on fee-for-service creates an environment of dental overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • This will eventually require that China move away from its overreliance on a fee-for-service payment method, which is often associated with escalating health-care costs.
    — Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2011
  • For years, physicians operating under the traditional fee-for-service model have sustained their incomes by performing more procedures and charging higher fees.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The sweeping changes, if passed by the state legislature, would consolidate all Medicaid billing under a fee-for-service model through which the state directly pays providers for services rendered.
    — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, their coverage would revert to traditional Medicaid fee-for-service coverage.
    — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Commercial brokers might adopt fee-for-service models or retainer agreements, prompting a reevaluation of existing commission structures.
    — Giri Devanur, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These challenges, coupled with the impacts of fee-for-service reimbursement models and staffing mandates, contribute to poor patient outcomes and create a cycle that seems increasingly difficult to break.
    — Dave Wessinger, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Because people may get more care than necessary, fee-for-service payment arrangements can potentially lead to escalating healthcare costs and higher health insurance premiums.
    — Elaine Hinzey, Verywell Health, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Insurers compete for patients by offering benefits, including vision and dental care that aren’t available in traditional fee-for-service Medicare.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The non-profit recognized that the traditional fee-for-service system, which pays providers for the number of hours billed rather than outcomes achieved, was driving costs upward without necessarily improving quality of life.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2025

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