This article reports the findings of an empirical analysis of per case and per diem models of prospective payment for Medicare inpatient psychiatric care. Quantitative measures are presented that show the improvement of a per diem model over a per case model. The research supports the viability of per diem prospective payment and identifies directions for future research that would refine curre...

Jamal et al. [2000. Optimal payment time for a retailer under permitted delay of payment by the wholesaler. International Journal of Production Economics 66, 59–66] study a wholesaler–retailer supply chain where the retailer is given a permissible credit period to pay back the dues without paying any interest to the wholesaler. The problem is modeled as a cost minimization problem with two deci...

In this paper, seller-buyer supply chain coordination with general side-payment contracts is introduced to gain the maximum possible chain profit. In our model, the logistics costs for both buyer and seller are considered and the final demand is also supposed to be a decreasing function of the retail price. Since parties aim to maximize their individual profits, the contractual parameters are s...

Payment transactions through the use of physical coins, bank notes or credit cards have for centuries been the standard formats of exchanging money. Recently online and mobile digital payment platforms has entered the stage as contenders to this position and possibly could penetrate societies thoroughly and substitute current payment standards in the decades to come. This paper portrays how dig...

During the past few decades electronic payment protocols has been studied. A lot of electronic payment protocols, for example, 3KP, SET, have been proposed which claimed that have security properties. To our best knowledge, till now analysis of 3KP protocol has not with automatic tool in computational model. Recently owning to the contribution of Meng et al., 3KP protocol can be analyzed with a...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) delineates positive and negative emotions, especially in the lower arousal range, which reflects small variations. This study derived formulas to extract features from the EDA graph and found they are effective to predict search satisfaction and explain mobile shopping behaviors including add to cart, purchase, and abandonment (added to cart without purchase). The b...

From 2004 to 2012, the German social health insurance levied a co-payment for the first doctor visit in a calendar quarter. We develop a new model for estimating the effect of such a co-payment on the individual number of visits per quarter. The model combines a one-time increase in the otherwise constant hazard rate determining the timing of doctor visits with a difference-in-differences strat...

Firstly, a game model is established under unconstrained market conditions to illustrate the basic evolutionary rule of the market of e-commerce payment method. It is concluded that the establishment of e-commerce payment market is not normative under the unconstrained market conditions, which shows the importance of the introduction of the third party payment for the establishment of standardi...