The Integrated Healthcare Association is coordinating an episode of care payment project for knee and hip replacement surgery, which will be expanding into other diagnostic and surgical procedures. he Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) is coordinating a bundled episode-ofcare (EOC) payment project for knee and hip replacement surgery, which will be expanding into other diagnostic and surgi...

We analyse the effect of competition on quality provision in mixed markets, such as healthcare and education, where public private providers coexist. draw two key assumptions about provider namely that it faces a regulated price is (partly) motivated. also explore effects changes state subsidy co-payment fees. Our main contribution that, under certain circumstances, more leads to lower average ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze variability in urologists' Medicare utilization and payment and estimate potential cost savings of standardized service utilization using information from the recently released Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) and to highlight potential limitations of PUF analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Centers for Medi...

OBJECTIVES Because of high purchase costs of newer vaccines, financial risk to private vaccination providers has increased. We assessed among pediatricians and family physicians satisfaction with insurance payment for vaccine purchase and administration by payer type, the proportion who have considered discontinuing provision of all childhood vaccines for financial reasons, and strategies used ...

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) defines the contract between a cloud provider and a cloud customer, detailing the resources being provided, the price the user will pay, and the quality of service (QoS) guarantees that the cloud provider ensures for the customer. If the QoS guarantees are not upheld, typically the cloud provider is assessed some penalties, such as payment credit for the customer...

Mobile operators and mobile service providers like SMS aggregators and ticket providers have until now been the main actors in the provisioning of SMS tickets for public transportation services. The consumers have been charged for SMS payments using the mobile phone bill. Due to financial regulation (EU directive) mobile operators are no longer allowed to handle payments and transactions for no...

With increasing demands for emergency medical services (EMS), many EMS jurisdictions are utilizing EMS provider-initiated nontransport policies as a method to offload potentially nonemergent patients from the EMS system. EMS provider determination of medical necessity, resulting in nontransport of patients, has the potential to avert unnecessary emergency department visits. However, EMS systems...