The issue of the cost containment effects of payment systems on per diem payments by Medicaid to nursing homes is addressed. Estimates of real payment rates as a function of broadly defined payment system classifications and economic and demographic variables using State-level data are presented. Little support for the notion that prospective payment systems substantially restrain payment rates...

This paper investigates the effects of investment and inspection policies on an integrated production–inventory model involving defective items upstream advance-cash-credit payment provided by supplier. In this model, retailers offer customers a downstream credit period. Furthermore, rate item can be improved through capital co-investment supplier retailer. The objective study was to determine ...

Six trends - movement towards value-based payment, rapid adoption of digital health technology, care delivery in non-traditional settings, development of individualized clinical guidelines, increased transparency, and growing cultural awareness about the harms of medical overuse - are driving the US health care system towards a future defined by quality- and patient-centric care. Health care or...

First introduced conceptually decades before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has evolved as a foundational element within the larger health care system or medical neighborhood, highlighting a coordinated and comprehensive disease management approach centered on intensive primary care interventions. More recently, in the wak...

We present the results of an experiment that (a) shows the usefulness of screening out drop-outs and (b) tests whether different methods of payment and reminder intervals affect charitable giving. Following a lab session, participants could make online donations to charity for a total duration of three months. Our procedure justifying the exclusion of drop-outs consists in requiring participant...

This paper proposes three new micropayment schemes based on hashing and salting techniques. These schemes add signiicant features to the PayWord scheme proposed earlier by Rivest and Shamir. The scheme SPayWord introduces a salt into the payment process which makes the scheme more secure with smaller PayWords. The scheme UP-ayWord removes the constraint of the original PayWord scheme which requ...

The emergence of e-commerce has created new financial needs that in many cases cannot be effectively fulfilled by the traditional payment systems. Recognizing this, virtually all interested parties are exploring various types of electronic payment systems, issues surrounding electronic payment system and digital currency. Broadly, electronic payment systems can be classified into four categorie...

The payment system of a country plays a crucial role in its economy; however, despite the benefits of e-Payment and efforts by financial authorities, Nigeria still has a low e-Payment adoption rate. In this regard, there is an urgent need to investigate the factors that affect individuals’ intention to adopt e-Payment. Drawing on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) mo...

The extraordinary growth of interconnected computer network & pervasive trends of using this network as new field for conducting Business process are stimulating the demand for new payment methods. These new methods attain high level of security, speed, privacy, decentralization & internationalization. This seminar surveys the state of art in payment technology & we proposed model for electroni...

the protection of households against catastrophic medical payment always has been one of the most important objectives in any health care system. this study assessed the performance of iranian health insurance schemes in protection the patients against catastrophic medical payment. this is an analytical study which performed in a cross sectional design on 400 patients that hospitalized in selec...