The more the hospital exceeds its cost-reduction and quality-improvement targets, the more money it can keep.
"There is no cost-reduction target in the price control, " said Ofgem communications manager Mark Wiltsher.
Even when cost-reduction is a target, the plans for realising it are often worryingly sketchy.
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The company announced last quarter that it would embark on a cost-reduction initiative.
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Anyway, back on January 25 the company announced that it launch a cost-reduction plan in attempt to become more profitable.
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Third-quarter 2011 reported earnings were negatively impacted compared with the same period last year by higher charges associated with cost-reduction and productivity initiatives.
"Earnings recovery will be driven by lower interest rates and the cost-reduction measures that are to be introduced by the government, " he says.
Motorola Mobility hardware unit has indefinitely suspended operations at its phone-manufacturing facility in India and cut 76 jobs there as part of its global cost-reduction program.
The core of the Republican Medicare cost-reduction bill is Medicare Plus, a plan offering seniors a range of managed care plans, or HMO's, from which to choose.
If the deal is ratified in January, it will bring the final-holdout flight attendants into the fold with Continental's other unions that have already agreed to cost-reduction plans.
The potential for cost-avoidance and cost-reduction inherent in the technologies being decontrolled can also have great significance for the Soviet armed forces in a period of ostensible budgetary austerity.
Aquila Networks, based in the West Midlands, has claimed that it would be penalised by the regulator Ofgem if it paid out and, by doing so, missed industry cost-reduction targets.
Compaq got a head start on the cost-reduction process by fielding more than 200 teams to draw up "road maps" detailing products Compaq would continue to produce and how they would be marketed and sold.
Miner, who doesn't ask for aid or a bailout, says she wants to work with the governor to come up with more cost-reduction measures, many of which were won by politically powerful unions in Albany.
Is this a cost-reduction exercise?
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Kodak believes that the sale of these assets, as well as continued cost-reduction initiatives, curtailment of its legacy liabilities, and the monetization of the company's digital imaging patent portfolio, will be significant milestones toward completing the company's reorganization and emergence from Chapter 11 during 2013.
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Eagle has bright prospects ahead thanks to an improving end-market outlook, cost reduction efforts and an acquisition-based growth strategy.
But what a university sees as a no-brainer cost reduction, a utility often sees as a threat to sales.
It uses high-tech medicine sparingly to treat the most serious conditions while employing nutrition, exercise, stress-reduction and other simple, low-cost (or free) interventions to foster long-term health and resilience.
It is thus worth noting that there is no cost-push inflation to work against or counter the reduction of demand-pull forces that would intensify inflation.
Wireless charging ICs by IDT will provide industry-leading size and cost reduction, while simplifying product development and integration.
The company also announced a cost-cutting plan that will include an 18%-20% staff reduction.
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Anything that would cost serious money, and disrupt his deficit-reduction plan, was ruled out.
Prizes could be used to increase energy efficiency, cost-effectively convert solar energy to electricity, waste reduction efforts, and drive advancements on any number of environmental issues.
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But these pioneers also saw strong financial rewards from embracing social technologies: Cost reduction, operational efficiency, faster innovation through co-creation, and increased customer satisfaction.
But deficit reduction cannot come at the cost of economic growth or middle-class security.
Although the bank's income has fallen by 14% in the first nine months of the year, this was outstripped by further benefits from cost-cutting - which saw 4, 796 jobs cut - and a reduction in the amount of money it has had to set aside for losses on past loans that have turned bad.
InBev has already been accused of tinkering with the long-established recipes for its iconic brands, mostly in the name of cost reduction.
The true cost to the country is not a few bad debts but a reduction in long-term investment plans as confidence wanes.
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