Decision-makers must also review professionals' working conditions and their remuneration (fee-for-service or not) as well as incentives and regulations adopted to attract and retain health professionals in the health sector.
Other complementary indicators for assessing monetary incentives could refer to modes of remuneration (for example, the proportion of health care providers paid by salary, fee-for-service or capitation), or multiplicity of sources of remuneration (such as the proportion of health workers receiving wages from both public and private sector jobs).
Indeed, the province of Quebec has its own specificities in terms of the healthcare system (public), density of population (medium to very low), physicians' remuneration mode (fee-for-service) and pathologist shortage (moderately severe).
For the unit prices, a remuneration fee was used, as supported by the Dutch guidelines (Table I) [ 35].
11 13 15 17 This may be explained by different systems of remuneration (eg, fee for service), depending on the medical acts recorded, by better facilities for telephone and e-mail contacts, and by a better non-medical to medical staff ratio.
Several studies have suggested that a mixed remuneration model combining fee-for-service and more generous capitated payments might be a more promising solution [ 22] for the management of complex clienteles.
The type of remuneration (salary, capitation fee or fee-for-service) provides different opportunities for increasing income.
13 PEMs vary in terms of structure, services provided and remuneration (varying from enhanced fee-for-service to blended capitation).
Recording and reporting of services given was the only method of physician remuneration in this largely fee-for-service system and regular ongoing auditing confirms services are given.
Remuneration is on a fee-for-service basis, but the Australian Government currently pays for 85 100% of a fee set by Government (the Medicare Schedule fee) for each service [ 12].
