Medicare pays "at-risk" health maintenance organizations a prospective capitation amount that is established by the adjusted average per capita cost (AAPCC) formula for estimating the amount enrollees would have cost had they remained in the fee-for-service sector. Because the AAPCC accounts for a very small percentage of the variation in beneficiary costs, considerable research has been devote...

The previous literature mainly assumes that the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and their payment-forms are unpredictable prior to the first bid announcement day. Using a sample of 125 completed acquisitions between U.S. public firms from 2003 to 2006, I find that a bid offer is anticipated on average 187 trading days before the announcement day in 86% of deals. The market also anticipates the ...

Market Year Average (MYA) prices enter into payment calculations for Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC), two commodity program alternatives available in the 2013 Farm Bill (see here for more details). The distribution of MYA prices will influence payment levels under both programs. Hence, quantifying the potential MYA price distributions is important for evaluating c...

Based on the report of the Central Social Insurance Medical Council concerning the 2002 Revision of the Medical Service Fee Schedule, a new inclusive payment system was introduced in 82 special functioning hospitals (university hospitals, National Cancer Center, National Cardiovascular Center) in Japan in April 2003. Beginning in April 2004, the system was gradually extended to general hospital...

it has been tried to compare the “price payment method” in iranian law with “principles of international commercial contracts” and “convention on contracts for international sale of goods vienna, 1980” in this study. different law regulations in various countries should be unified in order to extend rapid and insured trusted law relations among the nations and people all over the world because ...

Background and Objectives: In the real world, the obsolescence items are some items that lose their value over time due to the emergence of new technology. Because of rapid changes in technology, inventory management of such items is considered in recent years. Moreover, suppliers try to encourage the retailers for purchasing an item before it is outmoded with some policies suc...

The European banking industry joined forces to achieve a fully integrated market for retail payment services in the euro area: the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Against this background, the present paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payment business and overall bank performance. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 2000–2007, we analyse whether ...