payment mechanism health insurance is a serious challenge for policy makers, access to health, continuing care, need to technology, huge expenses a considerable part of health funds is collected. therefore organizing and designing appropriate policies for organizing, financing, payment mechanism for providers and role of diagnostic related groups system. in this study, our main objective study ...

background equity of access to health and provider payment mechanism in healthcare is a worldwide debated. healthcare reforms are primarily designed to improve productivity, economic efficiency and quality of care; however, an appropriate reimbursement of healthcare providers for services offered to patients and marinating a robust payment mechanism are not elucidated yet. conclusions no single...

the letter of credit as a method of smoothing international payment is a conditional security and obligation to pay the customer bank (issuing bank) to seller (applicant). for this purpose, the letters of credit may be considered as the most usual method of payment of goods price in international trade. the classic form of letters of credit is the commercial letters of credit whose financial ob...

In recent years, traditional transactions have been replaced by electronic transactions. To protect the security of the electronic transactions, various electronic payment (e-payment) mechanisms have been proposed. However, we find the previous e-payment mechanisms do not provide the non-repudiation requirement in the client side. Thus, a malicious client can easily deny the transaction and the...

Combinatorial auctions have a wide range of real-world applications; yet, designing combinatorial auction mechanisms that simultaneously possess good economic properties and computational tractability remains a major challenge. An auction mechanism consists of an allocation rule and a payment rule. We propose a new framework that uses Structural SVMs to design a payment rule for any given alloc...

We propose using lotteries as an alternative payment mechanism through which to incentivize and recruit workers to microtasking. We present initial findings gained via experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk and focus on discussing the benefits and potential pitfalls in employing a lottery-based payment mechanism for microtasking. lottery-based Payment Mechanism Over the last few years, paid micr...

Content-based publish-subscribe (pub-sub) networks enable a group of publishers to efficiently provide content to a large number of subscribers while allowing the subscribers to remain anonymous to the publishers. To be commercially viable, we need mechanisms for collecting payments from subscribers and distributing them fairly to publishers. This paper discusses why existing payment systems ar...

The present study was conducted to define the variables affecting payment mechanism for strategic purchasing in the indirect health section of Iranian Social Security Organization of Iran, by which the Organization can provide the insured with better services while controlling the cost. 13 variables affecting payment mechanism for strategic purchasing were determined. A questionnaire was prepar...