I n health care liability claims, and in most personal injury claims for that matter, medical expenses related to the care and treatment of the injury alleged by the claimant often constitute a significant portion of the damages that might be recovered at trial. For this reason, it is important to understand exactly what medical expenses are recoverable. In Texas, recoverable medical expenses w...

example, which ranked second highest in terms of per capita income, grants amounted to $46.51 per capita compared with $18.38 for the continental United States; 50 percent of the total grants to the State went for highway construction. Similarly, in the middle-income group, Wyoming received $34.87 per capita in grants, and 48 percent of all grants was for highways. New Mexico, among the low-inc...

BACKGROUND Orthopaedic practice expenses are the costs associated with providing treatment that are incurred by a physician's practice. Certain payer types are thought to increase orthopaedic practice expenses by increasing paperwork and other administrative activities. Our study investigated the hypothesis that orthopaedic practice expenses would vary significantly by payer type. METHODS Wit...

This Article considers whether infertile taxpayers can deduct their fertility treatment costs as medical expenses under Internal Revenue Code section 213 and whether they should be able to deduct them. Internal Revenue Code section 213 defines medical expenses as "amounts paid-for the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or for the purpose of affecting any structure...

This paper investigates the relationship between nonprofit board composition and organizational efficiency. We test the hypothesis advanced by Fama and Jensen (1983) that the presence of major donors on the board and on key monitoring committees is associated with greater organizational efficiency due to donor monitoring activities. The multivariate analysis shows that the ratio of total expens...

The purpose of this article is to present a system dynamics (SD) model for studying the ‎interconnections among human being weight, eating habit, exercise, body fat, take-in medication, drugs-uses, and the health problems in general. Due to the fact that all of these factors have direct and indirect impacts on the expenses that insurance company have to pay this author is proposing a systems th...

Travel expenses represent up to 7% of organisations overall budget. Existing expenses systems are designed for reporting expenses types and amount, but not for understanding how to save and spend. We present a system, manipulating semantic web technologies, which aims at identifying, explaining, predicting abnormal expense claims by employees of large organisations in 500+ cities.

The CALTREC project automated the process of creating travel expense claims for the state of California. This project is a good representative of the types of projects expected to be done by the state. The application is heavily embedded in traditional data processing systems, which added much additional work outside the scope of what is considered to be knowledge engineering. The state of Cali...