Today the company also negotiates pricing with insurance companies and even handles doctors' back-office payment services.
Not counted, for instance, are membership dues, such as what one might pay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the theory that the member is getting something back for the payment, like reduced admission price.
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Aside from passing the total bill and the payment confirmation back and forth, this equipment never interacts at all.
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But that one chance came again: In an amnesty ended Jan. 31, New York allowed payment of back income, sales or other taxes without penalties and with reduced interest--an even better deal than in 1996, when only penalties were waived.
But loans must be paid back so the pain of payment is only delayed.
At the same time it launched an amnesty program for employers to voluntarily reclassify workers in exchange for a reduced payment to cover back taxes.
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When someone dies, credit card companies have to wait near the back of the line to receive payment.
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So I was able to give him partial money and come back and pay the rest off in payment plans.
Since the couple had the money for a down payment, they could get back in the game if they were ready.
But, hopefully, with the support of the bank and with the benefit of the SPL parachute payment, we could bounce back, as Inverness proved is possible.
He believes the reward of giving back is greater than any other form of payment.
The lowest late-payment rate on TransUnion records going back to the mid-1990s was 0.56 percent, set in the third quarter of 1994.
The payment date has already been pushed back to the end of February 2006 and there are now real concerns that deadline too will not be met.
The manufacturers have hard on a slew of lobbyists to convince Congress that the Medicare payment rule needs to be changed back so that doctors can use their clinical judgment for that mid-level anemia.
As now, anyone paid by cheque will deposit it in their bank, to be sent on to various clearing houses, which route the cheque back to the issuer's bank for payment approval and the transfer of funds.
There are echoes of the 1996 election, when Boris Yeltsin's campaign was marked by a nationwide tour which saw him respond to complaints about non-payment of wages by making some back payments and giving promises of full settlement.
Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a back seat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.
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They are often reluctant to go back into formal work until the two-year payment period is over.
In the first years in which you pay back your car loan, the majority of each payment goes toward interest rather than principal.
Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
The Premier League took rights to 46 of next season's games back from beleaguered firm on Friday after it missed a payment deadline.
About 80 engineers have quit the airline over the past four months due to non- payment of salaries, salaries which Mallya promised back in March would be paid by June.
Is this a worst-case scenario, or is this like a down payment, and then you maybe have to come back for more later?
But he told MPs last week he favours the most ambitious of these - scrapping all current out-of-work benefits in favour of a single payment, which would be tapered to encourage people back into work.
The price of YPF bonds briefly rose with the announcement of the oil firm's nationalisation in April by Argentina's government, because of a clause demanding advanced payment in the case of an expropriation, before falling back as investors worried Argentina wouldn't much care.
So nationwide, these low down payment sales, like the subprime of old, are already coming back to bite the hand that fed them.
The distributed denial-of-service attack failed to crash those payment networks, but David says Anonymous did manage to poke around their back-end computer systems.
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