Regarding Fee for Service
New England Journal of Medicine · 1965
OVER the centuries the cherished tradition of a specific fee for service rendered has been approved by physicians and accepted by their patients as the most practical, comfortable and mutually satisfactory method of compensation. It helps to preserve the confidential relation that is desirable between patient and physician; it gives the physician who puts service ahead of profit the opportunity to temper his fee, when it seems desirable, within that confidential relation. It allows him to increase his total compensation, not by overcharging but by adjusting his charges to the circumstances, and by caring for more patients.The principle of . . .