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à l'acte

French translation: fee-for-service

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:à l'acte
French translation:fee-for-service
Entered by: Connie Leipholz

06:36 May 1, 2001
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical
English term or phrase: à l'acte
Contrairement au Secteur Public Hospitalier, où les praticiens sont salariés, les établissements de santé privés fonctionnent pour la plupart en partenariat avec des médecins libéraux qui exercent leur profession en leur sein, conformément à un contrat conclu avec l’établissement, et sont rémunérés à l’acte par la Sécurité Sociale, les mutuelles ou les patients.

I understand the meaning, but I am looking for something appropriate to the medical field.
Paul Sadur
Local time: 16:16
fee-for-service
Explanation:
Dear Paul,

I just happen to stumble on your question. It is quite common to say that "les médecins ou les chirurgiens sont rémunérés à l'acte".

Termium proposes :

1. Domaine(s)
– Remuneration (Personnel Management)

Domaine(s)
– Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)

pay a fee-for-service Source
payer à l'acte Source
rémunérer à l'acte Source
OBS – Equivalent obtenu du Dr Gagnon de la FMOQ.


So, in real life, this what the English-speaker says :

ABSTRACT: To encourage doctors to practice more preventive medicine and make more efficient use of specialty services, managed care organizations and medical groups are experimenting with alternatives to traditional capitation. Variations include paying primary care physicians fee-for-service while capitating specialists, and paying specialists a global fee for all the care a patient may need from a given referral. These payment mechanisms are supposed to offset incentives inherent in capitated systems to avoid seeing patients or to refer them indiscriminately by selectively redistributing physician risk, rewarding primary care doctors for doing more and specialists for managing cases conservatively. However, questions remain about the workability of some of these approaches and whether they will lower physician compensation by limiting the potential rewards of capitation.

http://www.betweenrounds.com/volume2/issue5/redir_risk/


In fact, when you look this up on Google, you get quite a few matches :

CMAJ - February 15, 1997 / Financial and geographic barriers ...
... Province, ... barriers to fee-for-service practice. ... receive 50% of fee. ... week on specific activities; physicians in metropolitan areas paid 70% of fee ...
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-156/issue-4/0616e.htm -


News and Analysis: CMA survey shows fee-for-service not dead ...
... who preferred fee-for-service remuneration (50% compared with 33%), but that proportionincreased this year, to 37%. Only 49% of physicians are paid via the ...
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-163/issue-5/0601a.htm -


Health Care News: Fee-for-service Health Care Makes a ...
... is the return to fee-for-service medical care ... only $43 for the service. ... real threat to many physicians due to low ... most health care is paid for through an ...
www.heartland.org/health/mar01/simple.htm -


Fee-for-Service Payment Statistics index
... Plan Fee-for-Service Payment Analysis 1994/95 ... highlighting top 50 fee items by paid services and gross ... providing statistics on physicians by specialty ...
www.moh.hnet.bc.ca/msp/general/irm/ -


Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of ...
... way in which primary care physicians are paid may affect their clinical ... care is provided), salary, and fee for service (payment is made for ...
www.update-software.com/abstracts/ab002215.htm - 6k -


AssistGuide.com - Hawaii's Fee-For-Service Medicaid Program
... STATE OF HAWAII. ... and laboratory examinations; Physicians' (including osteopathic ... by Medicaid are paid directly to ... eligible for Fee-For-Service Medicaid, you ...
www.assistguide.com/hi_state_info/dsh1142.asp -


CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Guidebook | Fee-for-Service Plans
... Fee-for-service plans ... who are well-paid and can afford the ... payments will like fee-for-service plans because they ... choice as to physicians and treatment, while ...
www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P05_4455.asp - 15k -


Private Fee-for-Service Plans - Questions and Answers
... a Network of Physicians? You can see any licensed provider who can be paid by Medicare and who is willing to accept the Private Fee-For-Service plan's terms ...
www.hcfa.gov/medicare/pffsqa.htm - 39k -


Between Rounds | Redirecting Risk
... typical managed care arrangements in which primary care physicians are capitated and specialists are paid fee-for-service, or all physicians are capitated. ...
www.betweenrounds.com/volume2/issue5/redir_risk/


How is life treating you? Well, I hope.

Wishing you happy translating,
Amicalement,
Connie
Selected response from:

Connie Leipholz
Canada
Local time: 17:16
Grading comment
Thanks again, Connie.
I was using something like "service-based fees," but it is better to use something sanctioned by actual usage.
I am editing another one of these huge jobs from France, 44,000 words this time.
I found that glossary I promised you and will put in the mail.
Best regards,
Paul S.


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Summary of answers provided
na(medical) consultation or treatment
Albert Golub
nafee-for-service
Connie Leipholz


  

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19 mins
(medical) consultation or treatment


Explanation:
robert and collins
every "acte medical" in the french system is codified in the medical procedure and it can correspond to a simple consultation or a treatment or x rays and so on
it is the basis of the "facturation et remboursement des frais medicaux"
bonne chance

Albert Golub
Local time: 23:16
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 2094
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fee-for-service


Explanation:
Dear Paul,

I just happen to stumble on your question. It is quite common to say that "les médecins ou les chirurgiens sont rémunérés à l'acte".

Termium proposes :

1. Domaine(s)
– Remuneration (Personnel Management)

Domaine(s)
– Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)

pay a fee-for-service Source
payer à l'acte Source
rémunérer à l'acte Source
OBS – Equivalent obtenu du Dr Gagnon de la FMOQ.


So, in real life, this what the English-speaker says :

ABSTRACT: To encourage doctors to practice more preventive medicine and make more efficient use of specialty services, managed care organizations and medical groups are experimenting with alternatives to traditional capitation. Variations include paying primary care physicians fee-for-service while capitating specialists, and paying specialists a global fee for all the care a patient may need from a given referral. These payment mechanisms are supposed to offset incentives inherent in capitated systems to avoid seeing patients or to refer them indiscriminately by selectively redistributing physician risk, rewarding primary care doctors for doing more and specialists for managing cases conservatively. However, questions remain about the workability of some of these approaches and whether they will lower physician compensation by limiting the potential rewards of capitation.

http://www.betweenrounds.com/volume2/issue5/redir_risk/


In fact, when you look this up on Google, you get quite a few matches :

CMAJ - February 15, 1997 / Financial and geographic barriers ...
... Province, ... barriers to fee-for-service practice. ... receive 50% of fee. ... week on specific activities; physicians in metropolitan areas paid 70% of fee ...
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-156/issue-4/0616e.htm -


News and Analysis: CMA survey shows fee-for-service not dead ...
... who preferred fee-for-service remuneration (50% compared with 33%), but that proportionincreased this year, to 37%. Only 49% of physicians are paid via the ...
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-163/issue-5/0601a.htm -


Health Care News: Fee-for-service Health Care Makes a ...
... is the return to fee-for-service medical care ... only $43 for the service. ... real threat to many physicians due to low ... most health care is paid for through an ...
www.heartland.org/health/mar01/simple.htm -


Fee-for-Service Payment Statistics index
... Plan Fee-for-Service Payment Analysis 1994/95 ... highlighting top 50 fee items by paid services and gross ... providing statistics on physicians by specialty ...
www.moh.hnet.bc.ca/msp/general/irm/ -


Capitation, salary, fee-for-service and mixed systems of ...
... way in which primary care physicians are paid may affect their clinical ... care is provided), salary, and fee for service (payment is made for ...
www.update-software.com/abstracts/ab002215.htm - 6k -


AssistGuide.com - Hawaii's Fee-For-Service Medicaid Program
... STATE OF HAWAII. ... and laboratory examinations; Physicians' (including osteopathic ... by Medicaid are paid directly to ... eligible for Fee-For-Service Medicaid, you ...
www.assistguide.com/hi_state_info/dsh1142.asp -


CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Guidebook | Fee-for-Service Plans
... Fee-for-service plans ... who are well-paid and can afford the ... payments will like fee-for-service plans because they ... choice as to physicians and treatment, while ...
www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P05_4455.asp - 15k -


Private Fee-for-Service Plans - Questions and Answers
... a Network of Physicians? You can see any licensed provider who can be paid by Medicare and who is willing to accept the Private Fee-For-Service plan's terms ...
www.hcfa.gov/medicare/pffsqa.htm - 39k -


Between Rounds | Redirecting Risk
... typical managed care arrangements in which primary care physicians are capitated and specialists are paid fee-for-service, or all physicians are capitated. ...
www.betweenrounds.com/volume2/issue5/redir_risk/


How is life treating you? Well, I hope.

Wishing you happy translating,
Amicalement,
Connie



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Connie Leipholz
Canada
Local time: 17:16
PRO pts in pair: 644
Grading comment
Thanks again, Connie.
I was using something like "service-based fees," but it is better to use something sanctioned by actual usage.
I am editing another one of these huge jobs from France, 44,000 words this time.
I found that glossary I promised you and will put in the mail.
Best regards,
Paul S.


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