Occurrences and developments of claims are modelled as a marked point process. The individual claim consists of an occurrence time, two covariates, a reporting delay, and a process describing partial payments and settlement of the claim. Under certain likelihood assumptions the distribution of the process is described by 14 onedimensional components. The modelling is nonparametric Bayesian. The...

The digitization of physical wallets into mobile applications is a promising trend, namely for payments, personal identification, and for grouping marketing items or digital tickets. Mobile digital services emerge on these areas promising to bring ease and convenience for wallet owners and, for place owners, lower costs on payment processing fees, increased service efficiency and a closer relat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Ties between physicians and pharmaceutical/medical device manufactures have received considerable attention. The Open Payments program, part of the Affordable Care Act, requires public reporting of payments to physicians from industry. We sought to describe payments from industry to physicians caring for children by (1) comparing payments to pediatricians to other medi...

Insurance denials delay payments for tests to medical institutions and can decrease patient satisfaction due to unexpected billing. Our institution utilizes an ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) for routine clinical care that includes computerized physician order entry (CPOE). At our institution as well as others, considerable cost is associated with inappropriate diagnostic coding of ne...

OBJECTIVE A solid understanding of levels and trends of spending on cancer is important to evaluate whether our healthcare resources were wisely spent and to prioritize future resources for cancer treatment and prevention. However, studies on economic burden of cancers in China are scant and the results are inconsistent. METHODS The Chinese hospital information database and nearly 350 million...

Reducing carbon emissions plays a significant role in developing sustainable inventory systems. In seller-buyer relationship, an allowable delay payment is considered for the buyer to manage stock and simulate demand. Deteriorating items that usually have specific maximum lifetimes become challenge most firms. Contrary importance of these issues, very little research has studied impact on deter...

This paper examines the necessity of regulating the Iranian card payments system (SHAPARAK) based on the theory of two-sided markets. The expansion of the payment card system in recent years has arisen some questions regarding the role of all kinds of costs and expenses such as interchange fees, cardholder fees, merchant fees, and network externality in balancing the market. Since there is only...