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The fee-for-service FFS model is responsible for wasteful spending in the form of unnecessary or redundant services because it provides incentives for providers to deliver more care.

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FFS isn’t responsible for skyrocketing medical costs. That’s inherent in third-party payment models, in which the patient isn’t the one bearing most of the cost.

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FFS in the United States has resulted in disproportionately high physician charges, which are a key part of overall costs.

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Charges are based on supply and demand, not how providers are paid. 

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Moving away from FFS would shift the responsibility for balancing the cost and quality of care from insurance companies to providers, who are more qualified to make decisions about what is appropriate.

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Under FFS, providers are trusted to use sound clinical judgment in providing care to their patients, rather than letting cost dictate which services are appropriate. 

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FFS rewards doctors for taking care of sick patients, rather than providing preventive care. With FFS, sick patients are more profitable than healthy ones. 

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Most doctors care very much about their patients’ health and don’t want them to be sick. FFS ensures that clinicians provide appropriate services based on patient needs, not on cost. 

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FFS discourages team-based care, since tasks done by non-clinicians are typically paid at lower rates or not at all. 

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With improved regulations, FFS would allow better payment for other team members and would be a much fairer payment model than alternatives such as capitation.

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FFS offers little incentive for high quality, evidence-based medicine, since services are funded regardless of how likely they are to improve patient health.

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Alternatives to FFS don’t necessarily offer any better incentives to provide high quality care based on evidence. Fixes to that problem can be made under any payment system.

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What do you think?

Isn’t the best way to contain healthcare costs to eliminate fee-for-service medicine, which rewards doctors for doing more tests and procedures?

Isn’t the best way to contain healthcare costs to eliminate fee-for-service medicine, which rewards doctors for doing more tests and procedures?

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