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Descriptor English: Fee-for-Service Plans
Descriptor Spanish: Planes de Aranceles por Servicios
Descriptor planes de pago por servicio
Entry term(s) pago por servicio médico
reembolso de pago por servicio
Scope note: Método de facturación en el que el médico u otro profesional emite una factura por cada consulta o servicio prestado. Además de los médicos, son remunerados mediante este mecanismo otros profesionales de la salud. Los planes de pago por servicio son diferentes de los sistemas de salario, per cápita y de prepago, en los que el pago no varía con el número de servicios realmente usados o si no se hace uso de ningún servicio.
Descriptor Portuguese: Planos de Pagamento por Serviço Prestado
Descriptor French: Régimes de rémunération à l'acte
Entry term(s): Fee for Service
Fee for Service Plans
Fee for Service, Medical
Fee for Services
Fee-for-Service Plan
Fee-for-Service Reimbursement
Fee-for-Service Reimbursements
Fee-for-Service, Medical
Fee-for-Services, Medical
Fees for Service
Fees for Services
Medical Fee-for-Service
Medical Fee-for-Services
Plan, Fee-for-Service
Plans, Fee-for-Service
Reimbursement, Fee for Service
Reimbursement, Fee-for-Service
Reimbursements, Fee-for-Service
Service, Fee for
Service, Fees for
Services, Fee for
Services, Fees for
Tree number(s): N03.219.442.195
N03.219.521.710.305.090
N04.452.758.745.225
SP1.333.550
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018588
Scope note: Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (From Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Fees, Medical (1969-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95; FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL was see FEES, MEDICAL 1982-94
Online Note: use FEES, MEDICAL to search FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL 1982-94
History Note: 95; FEE FOR SERVICE, MEDICAL was see FEES, MEDICAL 1982-94
DeCS ID: 32254
Unique ID: D018588
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/07/06
Revision Date: 1999/11/08
Fee-for-Service Plans - Preferred
Concept UI M0027864
Scope note Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (From Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
Preferred term Fee-for-Service Plans
Entry term(s) Fee for Service
Fee for Service Plans
Fee for Services
Fee-for-Service Plan
Fees for Service
Fees for Services
Plan, Fee-for-Service
Plans, Fee-for-Service
Service, Fee for
Service, Fees for
Services, Fee for
Services, Fees for
Reimbursement, Fee-for-Service - Narrower
Concept UI M0027863
Preferred term Reimbursement, Fee-for-Service
Entry term(s) Fee-for-Service Reimbursement
Fee-for-Service Reimbursements
Reimbursement, Fee for Service
Reimbursements, Fee-for-Service
Fee-for-Service, Medical - Narrower
Concept UI M0027862
Preferred term Fee-for-Service, Medical
Entry term(s) Fee for Service, Medical
Fee-for-Services, Medical
Medical Fee-for-Service
Medical Fee-for-Services



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