The MBS subsidises (i) fee-for-service medical care provided by GPs and specialist physicians delivered in their private consulting rooms and (ii) medical care provided to private patients treated in private and public hospitals.
Kemble, S. Is fee-for-service really the problem?
In the past 5 years, NR received (i) fees for speaking, organising education, or consulting from Altana Pharma-Nycomed-Takeda, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, MEDA, MSD-Chibret, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Teva; (ii) research grants from Nycomed, Boehringer Ingelheim, Pfizer and Novartis.
Nicolas Roche has received over the past 5 years (i) fees for speaking, organising education, or consulting from Aerocrine, Almirall, Altana Pharma-Nycomed-Takeda, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Chiesi, GlaxoSmithKline, MEDA, MSD-Chibret, Mundipharma, Novartis, Pfizer, Teva; (ii) research grants from Novartis, Nycomed, Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer.
Because I have "traditional" fee-for-service insurance, I never had to wait for referrals or to find doctors who accepted my insurance.
Individuals with asthma (n=1,813,922) were divided into groups based on the practice model of their primary care provider (i.e., fee-for-service, blended fee-for-service, blended capitation).
In general, patient enrolment models (i.e., blended fee-for-service and blended capitation models) appear to provide higher quality of asthma care compared to traditional fee-for-service models based on the analysis of asthma performance indicators.
The newer primary care models (i.e., blended fee-for-service, blended capitation) appear to provide better quality of asthma care compared to the traditional fee-for-service model.
The main themes of interest, namely i) challenges associated with fee-for-service payments, ii) solutions for these challenges and iii) challenges for integrated financing provided a framework for the initial categorisation of text.
Is there a fee for other things?
When GPs are paid per item, i.e., on a fee-for-service basis (FFS), there is a clear relationship between the amount of work and income.
