tals would then have a direct incentive to invest in reducing readmissions, and Medicare would benefit from immediate savings and progressively lower rates. Our approach would measure a hospital’s readmissions performance against its own historical record and population, avoiding the need for complex risk adjustment or adjustments for readmissions to nonindex hospitals, since they would already...

The offer of a delayed period for payment from suppliers may help retailers to order more but also improve the total supply chain performance. In this paper, we adopt Conditional Value-at-Risk, CVaR, as the performance criterion to examine how supply chain performance is affected through the deferred payment contract. Analytical results are yielded for the newsvendor retailer’s optimal order qu...

During the Covid 19 pandemic companies must pay attention to cash cycle in order survive and develop by continuing innovate improve company performance. The aim of this research is determine effect operation management on financial subjects are manufacturing listed Indonesia Stock Exchange 2018 2020. dependent variable performance independent which proxied inventory control TQM, average collect...

This study used cumulative results to update the distributions from which offer amounts were drawn in a dichotomous choice contingent valuation of user benefits from wilderness canoeing in Ontario’s wilderness parks. An empirical model demonstrates the efficiency gains from using this procedure. Results allow comparison of variation in average daily willingness to pay (WTP) by trip length, indi...

This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to ...nal consumption, and the cost of intermediation services is ...xed and the same across ...rms, the optimal taxes are generally indeterminate. But...

The economic history of technologies is largely a history of low-fixed-cost, high-marginal-cost technologies being replaced by newly invented, decreasing-average-cost (approximately, highfixed-cost and low-marginal-cost) technologies that come to be cost minimizing as demand for the product or service produced by the technology increases. The history of payment technology in the past century, a...

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hereby issues this final rule with comment period to implement a methodology and payment rates for the Indian Health Service (IHS) Purchased/Referred Care (PRC), formerly known as the Contract Health Services (CHS), to apply Medicare payment methodologies to all physician and other health care professional services and non-hospi...

BACKGROUND If behavior-change services are to be offered routinely in primary care practices, providers must be appropriately compensated. Estimating what is spent by practices in providing such services is a critical component of establishing appropriate payment and was the objective of this study. METHODS In-practice expenditure data were collected for ten different interventions, using a s...

background provincial health accounts (pha) as a subset of national health accounts (nha) present financial information for health sectors. it leads to a logical decision making for policy-makers in order to achieve health system goals, especially fair financial contribution (ffc). this study aimed to examine health accounts in kerman province.   methods the present analytical study was carried...