fee-for-service plans

Preferred Label : fee-for-service plans;

MeSH definition : Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (From Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976);

MeSH synonym : fees for services; plan, fee-for-service; service, fee for; fee-for-service plan; plans, fee-for-service; fees for service; service, fees for; services, fees for; fee for service; fee for services; services, fee for; fee for service plans;

MeSH hyponym : Fee-for-Service, medical; reimbursement, Fee-for-Service; Fee-for-Service Reimbursement; Fee-for-Service Reimbursements; Reimbursement, Fee for Service; Reimbursements, Fee-for-Service; Fee for Service, Medical; Fee-for-Services, Medical; Medical Fee-for-Service; Medical Fee-for-Services;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee for service;

Details

Origin ID

D018588;

UMLS CUI

C0242816;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- economics, primary health care [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- Fee-for-Service plans [MeSH concept]
- Fee-for-Service, medical [MeSH concept]
- reimbursement, Fee-for-Service [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Fee for Service Payment Method [NCIt concept]

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