Definition of "fee-for-service" []

• Charging a fee for each service performed: a fee-for-service health insurance policy. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Even up to the 1970s, most Americans still had indemnity plans also called fee-for-service plans."
• "Instead of getting paid every time they do something - a venerable system called fee-for-service that encourages them to provide more and more services - they're paid a fixed amount each month for each patient."
• "Currently most doctors in Canada are paid through what's called a fee-for-service model."