BACKGROUND The cost of certain diseases may lead to catastrophic expenses and impoverishment of households without full financial support by the state and other organizations. OBJECTIVE To determine the socioeconomic impact of the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cost in the context of catastrophic expenses and impoverishment. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a cohort-nested cross-sectional multicente...

This paper studies the properties and determinants of managers’ multi-year financial forecasts. We ask whether, by how much, and why biases in managers’ forecasts of revenues, expenses and profits depend on the forecasting horizon and the verifiability of firms’ assets. Since public companies rarely divulge their internal multi-year financial projections to outsiders, we use the oneto five-year...

Option (NASDAQEUROPE: OPIN), the leading innovator in the wireless communications market, today announced its consolidated second quarter results for the three months ended June 30th, 2002. Our results are reported in EURO and are prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP). Highlights for the second quarter of 2002: • Revenues for the second qua...

This ability in fuzzy UML, practically leaves the customers and market’s need without response in this important and vital area. Here, the available sequence diagrams in fuzzy UML will map into fuzzy Petri net. However, the formal models ability will be added to the Semi-formal fuzzy UML. This formalization will add the automatic processing ability to the Semi-formal fuzzy UML. Further more, t...

This paper talks about the measurement of efficiency and productivity of non-life insurance firms in India. This study is focused on twelve private non-life insurance firms and four public sector non-life insurance firms of India in the period 2008-09 to 2012-13. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) coupled with Malmquist productivity Index is used in measuring the efficiency as well as productivity...

Small farms in the US have significant challenges financial management. This study examines how small farmers undertake farm management to meet their agricultural and farm-related spending expenses. Using primary survey data from Tennessee, investigates factors influencing extent of use five financing sources expenses: cash/fund directly generated sale products, farmer’s past savings, household...

BACKGROUND Orthopaedic practice expenses are the costs associated with providing treatment that are incurred by a physician's practice. Certain payer types are thought to increase orthopaedic practice expenses by increasing paperwork and other administrative activities. Our study investigated the hypothesis that orthopaedic practice expenses would vary significantly by payer type. METHODS Wit...

Medical expenses are an increasingly important contributor to household financial risk. We examine the effect of medical expenditure risk on the willingness of Medicare beneficiaries to hold risky assets. Using a discrete factor maximum likelihood method to address the endogeneity of insurance choices, we find that having a moderately protective Medigap or employer supplemental policy increases...

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) has become an accepted treatment option for head and neck cancer. However, anatomical limitations and a relevant financial burden require alternative developments in this field. To this end, a patient presenting with a T2 squamous cell carcinoma of the lower lateral oropharyngeal wall was effectively treated with a new Conformité Européene-certified, computer-as...