By contrast, providers' who regularly had contact with the enrolees, and those advocating for a revision of the capitation payment per enrolee, were more likely to report poor fee-for-service payment procedures in the NHIS.
However, maintaining a flexible approach to recruitment allowed the COMP-PC research team to make adjustments to the recruitment strategy in order to overcome the initial poor participation of fee-for-service practices.
He added: "I'm not suggesting you should introduce a free television licence fee for poor people".
In fact, she often waived her consultation fee for poorer patients.
There is an inherent paradox between the notions of fee-for-service and increasing access to health care for the poorest who, by definition, are unable to pay.
Over the next three years, New York will move its entire Medicaid population into "managed care", paying companies a set rate to tend to the poor, rather than paying a fee for each service.
Dr Rösler's idea of a flat fee for rich and poor alike is vociferously opposed by the CSU, and the subsidy plan fits ill with the FDP's enthusiasm for tax cuts.
In hospital 2, there was a policy to give free sputum examination and waiver of the registration fee for consecutive visits for the poor patients.
Although in general health centre user fees are not a big barrier to access in Cambodia [ 36], the fee for delivery could nevertheless constitute a major financial barrier for the poor, especially when combined with transport cost [ 14].
In this scheme, vouchers were given to poor women to use for a reproductive health services package and providers were compensated on a fee for performance basis.
Additional fee for CPR training.
