The fee-for-service system already creates incentives for doctors to do the more costly thing.
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We need a breakthrough such that our hybrid social service system can produce better results at lower costs.
Our fee for service system rewards doctors for seeing more patients, doing more procedures and prescribing more drugs.
They belong to a separate civil service system that gives them higher pensions.
Managed care has largely achieved one-time savings by squeezing out irrationalities and high margins from the traditional fee-for- service system.
Nobody thinks it will be possible to scrap managed care and go back to total reliance on the old fee-for-service system.
Under the old fee-for-service system, insured Americans could demand almost any treatment they wanted, with little regard for cost or efficacy.
All men between ages of 18 and 26 are already required to register for the draft with the Selective Service System.
For example, with our fee-for-service system, providers get paid more to do more, and some of these organizations represent the providers.
New York is moving away from a fee-for-service system for Medicaid patients suffering from chronic illnesses, to one based on patient outcome.
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In China, subsidies were reduced and a fee-for-service system introduced when control over health services was loosened under economic reforms in the 1980s.
The current fee-for-service system is blamed for overutilization and overpaying for certain intense therapies provided by specialists, and underpaying for primary and preventive care.
All males must register with the Selective Service System by their 18th birthday, under penalty of law and the revocation of all federal student aid.
By 2005, all the patients inside the National Health Service system that have operations will have them through booked appointments, not the old waiting list system...
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An outmoded civil service system, we weren't getting enough people in that we needed with the high tech requirements that the future was going to bring us.
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This could become an advantage as Medicare moves away from the existing fee-for-service system toward paying hospitals a flat sum, or "bundle, " for each patient with a given condition.
Insurers are increasingly paying doctors and hospitals if they can better coordinate patient care rather than the fee-for-service system of today that pays for more care even though it is not necessarily better.
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The inability of the fee-for-service system to provide good preventive care is arguably one of the main reasons why the average American is no fitter than, and lives no longer than, people from European or Asian countries that spend far less on health care.
The runaway factor here is the fee-for-service reimbursement system that predominates in private and public insurance plans.
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Well, PAEA directs that CSRS (civil service retirement system) and FERS (federal employee retirement system) be funded at 100%.
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The authors acknowledge that the fee-for-service reimbursement system, in which providers earn more by treating patients more aggressively, impedes the kind of disruptive innovation that would lead to better care at a lower cost.
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The new powers are a reflection of the increasing role of the ombudsman in the health service complaints system since 1996, when that body was allowed to investigate matters of clinical competence for the first time.
There is a big difference between finding disgruntled customer posts and having an end-to-end system that can automatically discern which posts warrant response, record them in the customer service and CRM system, route them to the right subject matter expert or agent, and report on the result.
It will instead be a service to payment system providers, at least initially.
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The weather service said the system could extend into flood-prone southeastern North Dakota, where about 3 to 5 inches of snow is expected through late Thursday.
Kaiser has been around since the 1940s, and today this full-service health care system in the western part of the U.S. serves more than 8 million people.
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As the collaboration developed, the team constructed a new business model to overcome the lack of sanitation infrastructure and solve the issue of waste removal: the concept of a service-based system.
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The fact that these nations were British colonies is also an advantage in that they inherited a similar civil service, political system, a judicial system and the English language, features that would make the integration easier than the union of Europe.
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