payors

Sure self pay is an issue for us, but they make up only 5% of our payors, which is about in line with other hospitals I have worked out (not just rural ones).

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Now somebody can support the actual tax payors not the leeches.

Dates proposed for Massachusetts special election 2009

Some information is publicly available, and some comes from confidential diagnosis, procedure and prescription data gathered by Medicare and other payors.

Most Influential Doctors database 2009

Some information is publicly available, and some comes from confidential diagnosis, procedure and prescription data gathered by Medicare and other payors.

Most Influential Doctors database 2009

So, no matter what compensation scheme is planned (except for slavery), doctors who want to maximize their revenues while minimizing work hours can always find a way to do so that will result in suboptimal outcomes for patients and payors.

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"Health-care providers and payors worldwide will now have to justify the cost of using" Lucentis, wrote Philip Rosenfeld, a retina specialist at the University of Miami, in an accompanying editorial in the New England Journal.

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When hospitals and Doctors do not get paid, they pass the dollars in bad debt (risk) onto the payors.

Moderate Dems will determine if health care bill gets to Senate 2009

Hospitals, especially the For-Profiteers, know which payors treat them better.

Matthew Yglesias » Argue What You Know 2010

The payors then increase our insuance rates to make up the difference.

Moderate Dems will determine if health care bill gets to Senate 2009

So in order to make money we increase charges, this of course hurts self payors as well as insurance company payors (because the increased costs are passed on to their customers)

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