At Access Healthcare, a cash-only practice, fees can be lower than the co-pays a patient would otherwise cover under a traditional insurance plan.
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Banks want not only the fees--which average 4.4% of the transfer--but also a chance to persuade the customer to open an account or take out a loan.
Although around 60% of students get grants or government-backed loans, these cover only 70-80% of fees.
Contrast this with Amazon Marketplace and eBay, where the merchant share is treated as a pass-through and only transaction fees are recorded as revenue.
Hedge funds have grumbled for years about paying high fees for hard-to-locate stocks only to find that they were never delivered, even after the trade was executed.
Their monthly fees remain only a fraction of cellular-phone charges, though the upwardly mobile will probably trade up to a handset as soon as they can afford to.
Only one other state, Alaska, has loser-pays, and only for a portion of fees.
Both issues are likely to matter more as broking houses continue to shift from selling stocks and bonds, which produce only one-off transaction fees, to selling packaged financial products.
New benefits include a subscriber-only hotline, the elimination of exchange fees to allow for a more personalized selection of performances and a guarantee that subscription tickets come at a minimum discount of 15% off single-sale prices for evening subscriptions and 10% off for Saturday matinees.
That groove is now a rut and the only way out is to raise your fees and re-examine your market.
Keeping basic consumption cheap, and charging heavily only above a certain level, means that user-fees do not bear down on poor people.
But the bankers, who grew rich flipping dot-com flops for fees, shrug their shoulders and say that they only fed institutional funds what the funds wanted.
This is because the new fees and grants are to be paid up-front by the government and only repaid by students once they are working: in the short term, universities that over-recruit will be stretching the education budget.
The law also caps fees on certain loans and requires warning stickers on nontraditional mortgages (like interest-only mortgages).
Some schools don't even mention costs in their financial-aid award letters, while other schools cite only tuition and fees, ignoring transportation, textbooks and living expenses.
However, the loss of direct commission from airlines made travel agents more beholden to the GDSs, which not only slip them a share of fees but also provide their back-office computing.
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Until recently the reserve, 280 miles north of Johannesburg, pumped out enough revenue from its admission fees, wildlife-viewing drives, curio sales and guest lodges to maintain not only itself but also Lente's pet projects.
His original suit claimed TAP had paid doctors 2% kickbacks, but only one customer got the fees and they were legit: Tri-State Urology, a buying group, had a legal safe harbor to receive the fees.
He said politicians were happy to talk about "our country" or the "United Kingdom" - even when they were referring to policies that applied to England only, like the NHS shake-up or university tuition fees.
In this suit, Northern plaintiffs allege they weren't told that when they signed on with local asbestos lawyers, their cases were actually handed off to firms in Texas, Mississippi and North Carolina under agreements that brought the local attorneys only 2.5% to 5% of any contingency fees--typically 40% of a settlement.
Passengers who pay for baggage score their satisfaction an average of 63 points lower than their carry-on cohorts, and only 37% of those passengers think the fees are reasonable.
Hotels, restaurants and other service providers may charge fees for no-shows, but typically give customers time to cancel, imposing penalties only within 24 hours, or perhaps after 4 p.m. on the day of arrival.
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The good ones have microscopic fees, turnover occasioned only by the replacement of stocks erased in mergers and guaranteed market-matching performance.
One huge problem with this line of reasoning is that the financial advisers that public pensions rely upon for education and advice are, more-often-than-not, conflicted and lead pensions down treacherous paths that guarantee only greater fees to themselves.
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The decision represents an influential victory for Frank, who is often derided by class-action attorneys as a gadfly or only interested in raking off part of their fees for himself.
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Knox reaffirmed and extended this principle, holding that if a union wishes to assess money in addition to its regular fees, it must not only provide employees with notice but must also make the system opt-in rather than opt-out.
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Yet Lib Dem MPs - casting a gloomy eye over the polls - fear the only policy the public associate with them is their broken pledge on tuition fees.
Some payment providers charge hefty fees, arguing that this is the only way to make the economics work given few subscribers and low-value transactions.
Under the programme, contractors get a small fee when someone joins the scheme but they are only liable for larger fees once they have been in work for an extended period of time - of up to two years.
New and renegotiated contracts these days tilt the balance more toward performance-based fees: often just 1% of revenues and up to 12% of profits (and sometimes only net profits at that).
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