0 a fee-for-service payment is one in which a person pays a particular amount of money for medical treatment according to the type of treatment they receive: --
Unlike the fee-for-service reimbursement system, the capitation model removed the need for physicians to have direct contact with all patients accessing services in the practice.
Another marked problem is the juxtaposition of fee-for-service for specialists with budgets for nursing and accommodation costs in hospitals.
Medical doctors are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis, and hospitals receive an annual ex-post budget for support of their activities.
On the other hand, personnel paid on a fee-for-service basis only intervene in home care.
A small, independent healthcare sector provides care on a fee-for-service basis, with fees paid directly by patients or by private insurance reimbursement.
Some countries pay their physicians primarily on a fee-for-service basis, while others pay salaries.
Yet another combination includes fixed global budgets, additional payments for the provision of more costly treatments, and fee-for-service payments (1).
These policies created important vested interests in a pluralist financing structure and reinforced doctors' preferences for fee-for-service payment.