Purpose: The Indian Banking sector is striving hard to popularise digital payments and has gained momentum after demonetization India initiatives. To facilitate payments, “National Payment Corporation of (NPCI)” launched the “Unified Interface (UPI)”, which an amazing, revamped, cost-effective breakthrough for enabling payment services all. Proliferation smartphones, technological innovations, ...

Background: In Iran, a combination of three methods of budget payment, fee for service and case-based payment (known as the global payment system) is used to reimburse the cost of hospital services. The aim of this study was to investigate the costs of 90 services of the Global Hospital Reimbursement System at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional app...

Existing payment smartcards developed for traditional point-of-sale transactions are being considered for use in Internet transactions. Such solutions have been suggested as alternatives to using payment protocols more specifically designed for Internet payments (such as SET [6]) but often lacking smartcard support. In this paper, we analyze EMV’96 [5], a representative example of an existing p...

This research gives a comprehensive overview of the nursing home payment methodologies used by each State Medicaid program. To present this comprehensive overview, 1988 data were collected by survey from 49 States and the District of Columbia. The literature was reviewed and integrated into the study to provide a theoretical framework to analyze the collected data. The data are organized and pr...

The fast pace of wireless networks and mobile technologies development has created vast opportunities for financial service providers to render their services via the mobile platform. However, the acceptance of financial mobile services, particularly the mobile payment is still marginally adopted. While most of the research efforts focus on the positive determinants that influence such innovati...

Current macro-payment systems used by most E-commerce sites are not suitable for high-volume, low-cost produce or service purpose, such as charging per-page for web site browsing. These payment technologies suffer from use of heavyweight encryption technologies and reliance on always on-line authorisation servers. Micro-payment systems offer an alternative strategy of pay-as-you-go charging, ev...

The present paper refers to the usefulness of online payment through PayPal and to the development of this payment manner in Romania. PayPal is an example of a payment intermediary service that facilitates worldwide e-commerce.

The risk assessment of the bank has been one of the hottest researches in the financial field at the domestic and abroad. In recent years, with the development of the electronic commerce, the traditional payment method has transformed to the incorporation between the electronic payment and the traditional payment. The electronic payment is the general terms for a various of payment methods. The...

When Congress created the Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS) for hospitals in 1983, it established separate standardized payment amounts (national average costs per Medicare case) for inpatient services provided by urban and rural hospitals. The urban standardized amount was 25.3 percent greater than the rural standardized amount. This variation in payment was challenged by rural health ...