WPP's profit centres into closer contact and has shifted two-thirds of its total services to a fee-based system.
Managed care has largely achieved one-time savings by squeezing out irrationalities and high margins from the traditional fee-for- service system.
According to Reuters, Massport instructed airlines in 2005 to unplug their wireless access points so that travelers could be graced with the new fee-based system it was installing airport-wide.
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More importantly, the immigrants most tempted by such a fee-based system would be those who would garner the biggest economic benefit from migrating, such as those whose wages would increase by the largest amount.
The fee-for-service system already creates incentives for doctors to do the more costly thing.
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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.
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.
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.
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 U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
While they are a step toward a pay-for-performance system, they have not entirely shed the yoke of the fee-for-service model that is currently employed by government-funded health programs.
Medios EHR is one such hosted platform where a medical facility can pay a subscription fee to utilize a pre-fabricated digital record system.
The FAA says funding for the new fee system, combined with federal money, would shift the 40-year-old ground-based air traffic control system to a satellite-based, cockpit-to-cockpit system that is safer and more efficient.
They advertise weekend parties with an open bar (after some sort of admission fee) and their souped-up, outdoor sound system makes an unbearable racket into the wee hours.
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It calls for offering senior citizens a choice between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and a premium support system that would provide a fixed government payment to help them buy private health insurance.
Many other states are looking at shifting their dual eligible populations to either the fully capitated system that California has adopted or managed fee-for-service plans.
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The new approach replaces a two-decades old system of paying agencies a fixed fee for labor, regardless of results.
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"In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine, " says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and CEO of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente.
Our contingency fee system fills that gap, and does so consistent with well-established rules and ethical traditions.
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It had a revenue stream outside of adverting (with pro membership available for a small annual fee), it had clients on every mobile and desk-bound operating system out there, it was hosting pictures for countless blogs.
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Both allow homeowners to avoid the typical five-figure upfront cost of a solar system by paying a monthly fee that often is lower than their electricity costs.
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After acquiring Gate5 last year, Nokia decided that adding navigation capabilities was "a natural move, " and its forthcoming Smart2Go system will offer up free mapping and routing services and a fee-based turn-by-turn option if you've just got to have that robotic helper bossing you around (or can't take your eyes off the road).
But Germany's Postbank can transfer money almost anywhere in the world within two working days for only a nominal fee, and at no cost to the recipient (if there is a postal- banking system in the receiving country).
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