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Don't Eliminate Fee-for-Service
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[Opinion]
Oct. 16, 2013

"Serious payment reform in this country ... needs to retain some form of fee-for-service, the leading culprit of the ongoing health spending spree ... Fee-for-service provides some accounting system to help payers divide the risk-adjusted capitation payments the payment system is inching toward, according to Len Nichols, PhD, director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. 'If you abolished all fee-for-service tomorrow, you abolished all those codes, you'd have no clue what's going on out there,' Nichols said[.]"

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