Certainly, the fee-for-service system could not be used as the model on which to build a system of universal access.

In the traditional fee-for-service system, patients pay for their care item by item.

Under the old fee-for-service system, doctors had virtually no reason not to refer patients to a specialist when they deemed it appropriate.

Medicare's fee-for-service system was the norm for medicine in 1965, but it is no longer.

The current fee-for-service system also rewards bad hospitals for bad service.

At the service, which is defunct, she developed a fee-for-service system for use by private agencies.

America's fee-for-service system does not require doctors to measure.

Under the program, health care providers guarantee a rate ceiling, unlike Medicaid, which is based on a fee-for-service system.

The vast majority of doctors - an estimated 80 percent - work under the fee-for-service system, as opposed to salaries.

A fee-for-service system is one in which patients have the option of consulting any health provider subject to reasonable requirements.