Google had run ads with its search results for a while, but on a fixed-fee basis.
We need what business historian Alfred Chandler called the "visible hand of managerial capitalism, " the deliberate involvement of an integrated, fixed-fee provider that covers the patient from start to finish and profits from patient wellness.
In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.
The low, fixed-fee approach for all customers confirms a trend we commented upon nearly a year ago: providers no longer expect to make the big bucks from calls and texts, but intend to make up for it with the data plans and the connection of additional devices.
Yet the majority of survey respondents (about 60%) said that the outcome-based model with its fixed fee pricing is more effective.
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These middlemen pay a fixed fee to VeriSign (nasdaq: VRSN - news - people ), which controls the domain industry under the auspices of an international body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
These middlemen pay a fixed fee to Verisign (nasdaq: VRSN - news - people ), which controls the domain industry under the auspices of an international body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (which, oddly enough, reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce).
This partly reflects the emergence of long-distance telephone plans that no longer charged per minute but rather used a fixed fee.
It calls for offering senior citizens a choice between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and a premium support system that would provide a fixed government payment to help them buy private health insurance.
Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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